Legal Opinion
Abate v. Mundt
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 7, 1971No. 71PublishedCited by 253 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Marshall
In this case, petitioners challenge the constitutionality of a reapportionment plan proposed in response to both federal and .state court findings of malapportionment in Rockland County, New York. The Court of Appeals of the State of New York upheld the plan. We affirm.
For more than 100 years, Rockland County was governéd by a board of supervisors consisting of the supervisors of each of the county’s five constituent towns. This county legislature was not separately elected; rather, its members held their county offices by virtue of their election as town supervisors — a pattern that typified…
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