Legal Opinion
Board of Estimate of City of New York v. Morris
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 22, 1989No. 87-1022PublishedCited by 137 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
The Board of Estimate of the City of New York consists of three members elected city wide, plus the elected presidents of each of the city’s five boroughs. Because the boroughs have widely disparate populations — yet each has equal representation on the board — the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that this structure is inconsistent with the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. We affirm.
Appellees, residents and voters of Brooklyn, New York City’s most populous borough, commenced this action against the city in December 1981.1 They charged that the city’s charter…
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