Legal Opinion
Communist Party of Indiana v. Whitcomb
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 25, 1974No. 72-1040PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brennan
This is a loyalty oath case. The question for decision is whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments are violated by Indiana’s requirement, Ind. Ann. Stat. § 29-3812 (1969), that “[n]o existing or newly-organized political party or organization shall be permitted on or to have the names of its candidates printed on the ballot used at any election until it has filed an affidavit, by its officers, under oath, that it does not advocate the over*443throw of local, state or national government by force or violence . 1
Appellants are the Communist Party of Indiana, a new political party in Indiana,…
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