Legal Opinion
Malinou v. Board of Elections
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided December 21, 1970No. 1150-M.PPublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*22Kelleher, J.
The petitioner aspires to be the Democratic Party’s nominee for the office of United States Senator in the November 1970 general election. We issued a writ of certiorari1 to review a decision of the State Board of Elections holding that the petitioner was not a qualified candidate for the party’s primary election because he had not procured the required number of signatures that would authorize the Secretary of State to place the petitioner’s name on the primary election ballot. Hereafter, we shall *23refer to the State Board of Elections as either the respondent board or the state…
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- Pierce v. AlbaneseSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1957
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