Hendon v. North Carolina State Board of Elections

MEMORANDUM OF OPINION

SENTELLE, District Judge.

THIS MATTER is before the Court on cross motions for summary judgment. Twice before the case has been before this Court and twice before the Court has entered orders apparently dispositive but which were appealed with resultant remands. 1 This opinion must necessarily contain a review of these prior proceedings in order to sensibly dispose of the issues now raised by the motions for summary judgment.

This case first arose between the Congressional election of 1982 and the seating of the congressmen elected therein. The original plaintiffs were…