Legal Opinion
Van Susteren v. Jones
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 6, 2003No. 01-57210PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SCHROEDER, Chief Judge:
Adam Van Susteren filed this action in federal district court seeking to be listed on the ballot as a Libertarian Party candidate in the March 2002 primary election for California’s 53rd District seat in the United States House of Representatives. The defendants, the California Secretary of State and the San Diego Registrar of Voters, denied Van Susteren a place on the ballot because he did not meet the disaffiliation requirement in California Elections Code § 8001. The disaffiliation provision requires partisan candidates to have been disaffiliated from…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Storer v. BrownSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Tashjian v. Republican Party of ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- U. S. Term Limits, Inc. v. ThorntonSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
- Rosario v. RockefellerSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Colorado Libertarian Party v. Secretary of StateSupreme Court of Colorado · 1991
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