BOARD OF ELECTIONS v. DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE

No. 6577.

300 A.2d 725 (1973)

The BOARD OF ELECTIONS for the District of Columbia, Charles B. Fisher, Chairman, et al., Appellants, v. DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE for the District of Columbia et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 27, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. E. Bindeman, Sp. Counsel to the District of Columbia Board of Elections, with whom C. Francis Murphy, Corp. Counsel, Richard W. Barton and Earl A. Gershenow, Asst. Corp. Counsels, were on the brief, for appellants.

John W. Karr, Washington, D.C., with whom Glenn R. Graves, Washington, D.C., was on the brief, for appellees.

Before PAIR, YEAGLEY and HARRIS, Associate Judges.


YEAGLEY, Associate Judge:

Appellees, the Democratic Central Committee for the District of Columbia and its Chairman, Bruce J. Terris, brought this action to obtain injunctive relief from alleged "unlawful, unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious"1 actions of the Board of Elections. They alleged that the Board was not complying with the statutory mandate of Congress with regard to the certification...

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