Porter County Democratic Party Precinct Review Committee v. Spinks

MILLER, Judge.

The Porter County Democratic Party Precinet Review Committee and its officers appeal the trial court's grant of a preliminary injunction restraining them from proceeding, pursuant to the Rules of the Indiana Democratic State Central Committee, to remove John Spinks, Leonard Sullivan, Dennis Pardus, Charles Sutton, and Paul Edmonds from their offices as pre-cinet committeemen. We reverse.

Issue

The Committee makes several claims. One is dispositive-that is, the trial court lacked jurisdiction to enter an injunction concerning either the intraparty organization and functioning of a…