Battista v. New York City Board of Elections

—In a proceeding pursuant to Election Law article 16 to invalidate petitions designating Jason L. Benedetto, Frank P. Cappotelli, and Thomas J. Morris as candidates in a primary election to be held on March 7, 1996, for the Republican Party party positions of delegates and Margaret G. Hiza, Martin J. Phillips, and Robert G. White as alternate delegates respectively, for the 13th Congressional District to the 1996 Republican National Convention, the appeal is from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Garry, J.), dated January 30, 1996, which, after a hearing, denied the application…