Legal Opinion
Nielsen v. Kezer
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided January 31, 1995No. 15032PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPalmer, J.
The issue raised by this appeal is whether the defendants, Pauline R. Kezer, the secretary of the state, and the A Connecticut Party (ACP), unlawfully failed to recognize the named plaintiff, Mark Nielsen, a candidate for the state senate in the November 8, 1994 general election, as the ACP’s endorsed candidate from the twenty-fourth senatorial district. Nielsen and the plaintiff Charles Hamad, the sole delegate at the ACP’s twenty-fourth senatorial district convention, brought this action after Kezer refused to certify Nielsen as the ACP’s endorsed candidate based upon the ACP’s…
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