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SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY v. HARE

Civ. A. No. 33120.

304 F.Supp. 534 (1969)

SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY; Frank Lovell, Chairman of the State Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party; Evelyn Kirsch, Secretary of the State Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party, Plaintiffs, v. James M. HARE, individually and as Secretary of the State of Michigan; Bernard J. Apol, individually and as Director of Elections and Secretary of the Board of Canvassers of the State of Michigan, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Michigan, S. D.

October 1, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James T. Lafferty, Lafferty, Reosti, Jabara, Papakhian, James, Stickgold & Smith, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiffs.

Frank J. Kelley, Atty. Gen., Charles D. Hackney, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lansing, Mich., for defendants.

OPINION

LEVIN, District Judge.

Under § 168.685 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, a provision of the Michigan Election Law, in order for the name of a candidate of a new political party to be printed on the ballot, the political party must file petitions bearing the signatures of registered voters equal to not less than 1% nor more than 5% of the number of votes received by the successful candidate for secretary of state in the last election in which a...

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