Supreme Court of the United States, 1932

Koenig v. Flynn

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided April 11, 1932 · Hughes, Cakdozo

285 U.S. 375; 52 S. Ct. 403; 76 L. Ed. 805; 1932 U.S. LEXIS 441 (United States Reports)

Counsel

Messrs. Abraham S. Gilbert and Benjamin L. Fairchild for petitioners., Mr. Henry Epstein, First Assistant Attorney General of New York, with whom Mr. John J. Bennett, Jr., Attorney • General, was on the brief, for Flynn, Secretary of State, respondent., Messrs. John Godfrey Saxe, Robert F. Wagner, and John J. O’Connor were on the brief for Farley, respondent.

Cases that cite this one

23 later published cases cite this decision.

Baker v. Carr (Supreme Court of the United States 1962)
Colegrove v. Green (Supreme Court of the United States 1946)
Thomas Aries Scott v. Edward A. Hill (6th Cir. 1971)
Wesberry v. Sanders (Supreme Court of the United States 1964)
W. M. C. A., Inc. v. Simon (District Court, S.D. New York 1962)
Remmey v. Smith (District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania 1951)
Montgomery County Council v. Garrott (Md. 1966)
Scholle v. Secretary of State (Mich. 1960)
Wood v. State Ex Rel. Gillespie (Miss. 1932)
Agre v. Wolf (District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania 2018)
Carstens v. Lamm (United States District Court for the District of Colorado 1982)
Carey v. Klutznick (District Court, S.D. New York 1980)
Lampkin v. Connor (District Court, District of Columbia 1965)
Alsup v. Mayhall (United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama 1962)
Baker v. Carr (District Court, M.D. Tennessee 1959)
Brown v. Saunders (Va. 1932)
Williams v. Kerner (Ill. 1963)
Coleman v. Miller (Supreme Court of the United States 1939)
Pataki v. New York State Assembly (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2004)
Silver v. Pataki (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2000)
Association of Surrogates & Supreme Court Reporters v. State (N.Y. 1991)
Latting v. Cordell (Okla. 1946)
Matter of Moran v. La Guardia (N.Y. 1936)

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Opinion

*379 Mr. Chief Justice Hughes

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The petitioners, ‘citizens and voters’ of-the State, sought a writ of mandamus to compel the Secretary of State of New York, in issuing certificates for the election of representatives in Congress, to certify that they are to be elected in the congressional districts defined in the concurrent resolution of the Senate and .Assembly of the State, adopted April 10, 1931. The.'Secretary of State, invoking the provisions of Article I, section 4, of the Constitution of the United States, and those of the Act of Congress of August 8, 1911, c. 5, 37 Stat. 13, and also the requirements of the constitution of the State in relation to the enactment of laws, alleged that the concurrent resolution in question was ineffective, as it had not been submitted to the Governor for approval and had not been approved by him. The Court of Appeals of the State, construing the Federal constitutional provision as contemplating the exercise of the lawmaking power, sustained the respondent’s defense and affirmed the decision of the lower courts refusing the writ. 258 N. Y. 292; 179 N. E. 705. This Court granted a writ of certiorari.

The State of New York, under the reapportionment pursuant to the Act of Congress of June 18, 1929, c. 28, 46 Stat. 21, 26, is entitled to forty-five representatives in Congress in place of forty-three, the number allotted under the previous apportionment. The Court of Appeals decided that, in the absence of a new districting statute dividing the State into forty-five congressional districts, forty-three representatives are to be elected in the existing districts as .defined by the state law, and the two additional representatives by the State at large.

For the reasons stated in the opinion in Smiley v. Holm, decided this day, ante, p. 355, the judgment is affirmed.

Judgment affirmed.

Mr.- Justice Cakdozo took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.

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