United States Second Circuit

The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act and the New York Election Law do not violate the Constitution by extending the right to vote in presidential elections to US citizens formerly domiciled in New York and now residing outside US, but not to citizens formerly domiciled in New York and now residing in a US territory.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/30/2000
• Decided 09/06/2001
• Published 09/06/2001

Judges

• LEVAL, Circuit Judge:, Before WALKER, Chief Judge, OAKES, and LEVAL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Xavier Romeu, Isla Verde, CA, Puerto Rico, plaintiff-appellant, pro se., Angel E. Rotger Sabat, Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Gustavo A. Gelpi, Solicitor General, Rosa N. Russe Garcia, Deputy Solicitor General, and Irene S. Soroeta-Kodesh, Assistant Solicitor General, for intervenor-plaintiff-appellant Governor Pedro Rosselĺo., Gregorio Igartua de la Rosa, amicus curiae in support of plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mary Jo White, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (by Daniel S. Alter and Gideon A. Schor, Assistant United States Attorneys), for defendants-appellees Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen and President William Jefferson Clinton., Alan D. Scheinkman, Westchester County Attorney (by Stacey Dolgin Kmetz, Chief Deputy County Attorney, and Deborah A. Porder, Senior Assistant County Attorney), for defendant-appellee Carol Lee Sunderland, Commissioner of the Westchester County Board of Elections., Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York (by Joel Graber, Assistant Attorney General), for defendant-appellee George Pataki, Governor of the State of New York.