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WHITFIELD v. DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF STATE OF ARK.

No. H-C-86-47.

686 F.Supp. 1365 (1988)

Sam WHITFIELD, Jr., Linda Whitfield, P.L. Perkins, Julious McGruder, Georgia M. Varner, Annie Sykes, Ollie Jennings, Sam Bennett, Plaintiffs, v. The DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF the STATE OF ARKANSAS, the State of Arkansas Democratic Central Committee, the Phillips County Democratic Central Committee, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, E.D.

May 20, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Olly Neal, Kathleen Bell, Marianna, Lani Guinier, Pamela S. Karlan, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Tim Humphries, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

EISELE, Chief Judge.

This case involves a challenge to Ark. Code Ann. § 7-7-202, which requires that a candidate receive a majority of the votes cast in a political party's primary election in order to obtain the nomination of that political party. That section provides in pertinent part:

Whenever any political party shall, by primary election, select party nominees as candidates ... for any United States, state, district...

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