United States Second Circuit

Witness residence requirement in Section 6-132 of the New York Election Law significantly burdens interactive political speech and political association without advancing any legitimate state interest and, therefore, violates the First Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/09/2000
• Published 11/16/2000

Judges

• STRAUB, Circuit Judge:, Before:  FEINBERG, JACOBS, and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nancy Northup,Brennan Center for Justice (Gillian E. Metzger on the brief), New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Tahirih M. Sadrieh, Office of the Corporation Counsel of the City of New York (Michael D. Hess, Corporation Counsel, Edward F.X. Hart on the brief), New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Board of Elections in the City of New York., Patricia L. Murray, Deputy Counsel, Board of Elections of the State of New York, Albany, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Board of Elections of the State of New York., Nancy A. Spiegel, Assistant Solicitor General, State of New York (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, Peter H. Schiff, Senior Counsel, Robert M. Goldfarb, Assistant Solicitor General on the brief), Albany, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Governor George E. Pataki.