Smith v. Jansen

During its regular 1975 session the Legislature adopted a law (L 1975, ch 736, hereafter "the statute”) which purports to abolish the present board of trustees of the Suffolk Cooperative Library System and to provide for the election of a new board, under a new apportionment formula, to take office on January 1, 1976. The president of the current board, whose term of office will be prematurely terminated, has brought an action for a judgment declaring the invalidity of the new law and has moved to enjoin its implementation pendente lite. The named defendant is the secretary of the old board…