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Berman v. Board of Elections of the City of New York et al., 1970 — 397 U.S. 1065 · caselaw · US
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Berman v. Board of Elections of the City of New York et al.
397 U.S. 1065·Supreme Court of the United States·1970
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No. 1316.
Berman v. Board of Elections of the City of New York et al.
J. Lee Rankin, Stanley Buchsbaum, and Robert T. Hartmann for Board of Elections of the City of New York, Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney General of New York, pro se, and Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Assistant Attorney General, and Joel H. Sachs, Assistant Attorney General, for Rockefeller et al., respondents. Sol Rosen for Rabbinical Alliance of America as amicus curiae in support of the petition.
[MAJORITY]
C. A. 2d Cir. Motion of Rabbinical Alliance of America for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Certiorari denied.