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LEFKOVITS v. STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS

No. 74 C 3591.

400 F.Supp. 1005 (1975)

David LEFKOVITS and John T. Meagher, Plaintiffs, v. STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS et al., Defendants, Chicago Bar Association et al., Intervenors-Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

September 3, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Harte, Herbert F. Stride, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Arnold B. Kanter, Sonnenschein, Carlin, Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, Ill., for Intervenor Chicago Council of Lawyers.

Maurice J. McCarthy, Chicago, Ill., for Ill. State Bar Ass'n.

William J. Scott, Atty. Gen., Herbert L. Caplan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Kusper, Jr. & Bernard J. Korzen, Bernard Carey, State's Atty., Richard K. Means, Asst. State's Atty., for State Board of Elections and others.

John F. McCarthy, McCarthy & Levin, Chicago, Ill., for intervenors Chicago Bar Ass'n.

Before FAIRCHILD, Chief Circuit Judge, and WILL and MARSHALL, District Judges.

OPINION

MARSHALL, District Judge.

In the Illinois general election of November, 1974, Cook County Circuit Court Judge David Lefkovits was a qualified candidate for judicial retention. Ill.Const. Art. VI, § 12(d). John T. Meagher was then and is now a qualified elector residing in Cook County, Illinois who cast his ballot in favor of Judge Lefkovits' retention. The final canvass of the votes revealed that only 59.8% of the electors casting ballots...

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