United States Second Circuit

The New York State Election Law does not impermissibly deny citizens who have homes in multiple communities the right to vote in multiple local elections, in violation of equal protection.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/15/2002
• Published 10/15/2002

Judges

• WINTER, Circuit Judge., Before MESKILL, WINTER, and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard A. Briffault, Columbia Law School, New York, N.Y. (Michael B. Gerrard, Craig A. Stewart, Emma K. Lewis, Kerry A. Dziubek, Arnold & Porter, New York, NY, of counsel;  Gerald E. Frug, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, of counsel), for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Patricia C. Kakalec (Daniel Werner, of counsel), Farmworker Legal Services of New York, Inc., New Paltz, NY, for Amicus Curiae Farmworker Legal Services of New York, Inc.


• For Appellees:
  
• Melanie L. Oxhorn, New York State Office of the Attorney General, New York, NY, Todd D. Valentine, New York State Board of Elections, Albany, N.Y. (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, New York, NY, of counsel;  Michael D. Hess, Corporation Counsel, City of New York, New York, NY, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.