Rockland County, New York, et al. v. New York, et al.

This petition presents federal constitutional questions concerning Equal Protection and voting-rights limits on a state’s authority to selectively restructure local election systems for some counties while exempting others.

1. Whether the New York Court of Appeals’ decision upholding New York’s Even Year Election Law presents a justiciable federal question under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.

2. Whether New York’s Even Year Election Law violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.

3. Whether the Equal Protection Clause prohibits a state from administering local election laws in a non-uniform manner that imposes disparate burdens on similarly situated counties and county officers.

4. Whether a state election law that consolidates local elections into even-year ballots for some counties—but not others—imposes constitutionally cognizable burdens on voting, political speech, and association that must be meaningfully weighed under the Anderson–Burdick framework.