Legal Opinion
GREEN PARTY OF ARKANSAS v. Daniels
District Court, E.D. Arkansas
Decided August 20, 2010No. Case 4:09-cv-695-DPMPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
D.P. MARSHALL JR., District Judge.
The question presented is whether Arkansas’s statute defining a political party — how a group of voters becomes a party and stays a party — is unconstitutional when applied to the Green Party of Arkansas. The Party and two of its members (collectively the Green Party) challenge Ark. Code Ann. § 7-1-101(21) (Supp.2009) as imposing an unconstitutional burden on their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights to participate in State elections. Arkansas, appearing in the person of Secretary of State Charlie Daniels, defends the…
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