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Legal Citation: 410 U.S. 752 (1973)

Petitioner
Pedro J. Rosario, et al.

Respondent
Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of the State of New York, et al.

Petitioner's Claim
That New York State's law requiring voters to enroll in a party thirty days before a general election to vote in the following year's primary was unconstitutional.

Chief Lawyer for Petitioner
Burt Neuborne

Chief Lawyer for Respondent
A. Seth Greenwald

Justices for the Court
Harry A. Blackmun, Warren E. Burger, William H. Rehnquist, Potter Stewart (writing for the Court), Byron R. White

Justices Dissenting
William J. Brennan, Jr., William O. Douglas, Thurgood Marshall, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
21 March 1973

Decision
That the New York law did not discriminate...