DUKE v. SMITH

No. 92-0134-CIV.

784 F.Supp. 865 (1992)

David DUKE, Patrick J. Mahoney, Larry Agran, Lyndon H. Larouche, Jr., Guillermo Sanchez, Tasharay S. Otway-Smithers, David Baldwin, Edward J. Rosenfeld, Eugene Cottrell, Claire Urdl, William Edward Bonnell and Susan Brooks Thomas, Plaintiffs, v. Jim SMITH, Secretary of State of the State of Florida, T.K. Wetherell, Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, Gwen Margolis, President of the Florida Senate, James M. Lombard, Minority Leader of the Florida House of Representatives, Ander Crenshaw, Minority Leader of the Florida Senate, Simon Ferro, Chairman of the Florida Democratic Party, and Van Poole, Chairman of the Florida Republican Party, in their capacities as members of the Florida Presidential Selection Committee, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Florida.

January 30, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce Rogow, Beverly Pohl, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Nina Vanik, Miami, Fla., Richard B. Kay, Tequesta, Fla., H. Collins Forman, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for plaintiffs.

Mark Levine, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., George Waas, Tallahassee, Fla., for defendants.

E. Thom Rumberger, Daniel J. Gerber, of Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell, P.A., Orlando, Fla., for Van Poole, Crenshaw and Lombard, defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND FINAL JUDGMENT

MORENO, District Judge.

THIS suit involved as plaintiffs a number of individuals seeking placement on the presidential preference primary ballot of the Democratic and Republican parties in the State of Florida. Another group of plaintiffs includes individuals who are political party member registered voters who would like to vote for one of the other candidate plaintiffs.

I. BACKGROUND

Plaintiffs LaRouche...

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