Manard v. Miller

My view of the issues and the legal principles to be applied thereto require a reluctant disagreement with the conclusions of my colleagues. The conclusions of the majority result in a denial of preliminary relief in the form of an order permitting certain students, members of the plaintiff class, from provisionally voting in a State election to be held on November 2, 1971.1

Except for their implied approval of the desirability of resolving most questions of eligibility to vote by what appear to be expeditious and efficient State judicial procedures, I must and do respectfully dissent from the…