Honeywood v. Rockefeller

MOORE, Circuit Judge.

This is another of the numerous cases involving legislative apportionment that have been brought in the courts following the Supreme Court’s opinion in Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 82 S.Ct. 691, 7 L.Ed.2d 663 (1962). Plaintiffs’ claims arise out of the enactment of Chapter 980 of the 1961 Laws of New York, State Law, McKinney’s Consol.Laws, c. 57, § 110 et seq. which established new Congressional Districts in New York State necessitated by the reduced allotment of Congressional seats for New York from 43 to 41 following the 1960 decennial census.

For their first cause of…