Legal Opinion
Green Party of Tennessee v. Tre Hargett
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 2, 2015No. 14-5435PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
COLE, Chief Judge.
This is another challenge to Tennessee’s statutes that provide ballot access for minor political parties. Two minor parties— the Green Party of Tennessee and the Constitution Party of Tennessee — brought suit challenging these statutes under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The district court granted summary judgment to plaintiffs on all claims. Defendants appeal the grant of summary judgment to plaintiffs.
This appeal presents four issues: (1) whether Tennessee’s ballot-access scheme for “recognized minor parties” unconstitutionally burdens plaintiffs’ First…
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