BOARD OF ELECTIONS v MOSTOFI [65 Misc 3d 876] 877
pal Corporations, Counties, and Other Political Subdivi-
sions §§ 315–316.
MCKINNEY’S, Election Law § 8-306 (3); NY Const, art II,
§ 8.
NY JUR 2d Counties, Towns, and Municipal Corporations
§§ 140, 220–221, 345–346; NY JUR 2d Elections §§ 67,
81, 551–552.
52 USCA § 10508.
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APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Zachary W. Carter, Corporation Counsel, New York City
(Doris F. Bernhardt and Cynthia Weaver of counsel), for de-
fendants.
Eiseman, Levine, Lehrhaupt & Kakoyiannis, P.C., New York
City (Lawrence A. Mandelker of counsel), and Brown & Wein-
raub, PLLC, Albany (Jeffrey T. Buley of counsel), for plaintiff.
OPINION OF THE COURT
EDGAR G. WALKER, J.
Defendants Bitta Mostofi, as Commissioner of the New York
City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA), and Ayirini
Fonseca-Sabune, as Chief Democracy Officer of the City of New
York (collectively referred to as the City defendants),1 move for
an order, pursuant to CPLR 3212, granting them summary
judgment dismissing the complaint. Plaintiff Board of Elec-
tions in the City of New York cross-moves for an order, pursu-
ant to CPLR 3212, granting it summary judgment declaring
that the language assistance program (interpreter program)
sponsored by the City defendants violates the provisions of
article II, § 8 of the New York Constitution and is therefore in-
valid and may not be implemented, and that the local law fund-
1. In her affidavit submitted in support of the defendants’ motion,