National Organization for Women — New York Chapter v. Goodman

GURFEIN, District Judge:

This is an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. § 2201 for a declaratory judgment that New York Judiciary Law § 599(7); McKinney’s Consol. Laws, c. 30 which provides that a woman, although qualified, is entitled to exemption from service as a juror upon claiming exemption is unconstitutional. The constitutional claim is that the statute violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Jurisdiction is based on 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3). 1

It is alleged that the individual plaintiffs represent, respectively, three classes. Plaintiff Ann Pilkington is a…