N.Y.P.I.R.G. — Citizen's Alliance v. City of Buffalo

OPINION OF THE COURT

Julian F. Kubiniec, J.

Petitioners-complainants, N.Y.P.I.R.G. — Citizen’s Alliance, Kenneth Sherman and Alfred T. Coppola, by order to show cause: seek an order pursuant to Election Law article 16 declaring valid and legally sufficient the stadium referendum petition as filed with the Buffalo City Clerk between August 22 and August 26, 1985; and pursuant to CPLR article 78 declaring the determination of the respondent-defendant, Erie County Board of Elections, and the Buffalo Common Council’s *449action in rejecting said stadium petitions, to be in violation of lawful…