Socialist Labor Party v. Gilligan
Supreme Court of the United States
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Rehnquist
Appellant Socialist Labor Party has engaged in a prolonged legal battle to invalidate various Ohio laws restricting minority party access to the ballot. Concluding that “the totality of the Ohio restrictive laws taken as a whole” violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, this Court struck down those laws in Socialist Labor Party v. Rhodes, 393 U. S. 23, 34 (1968) ,1 Following that decision the Ohio Legislature revised the state election code, but the Party was dissatisfied with the revisions and instituted the present suit in 1970.
The Socialist Labor Party, its…
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2Cases cited35 opinions
- Baker v. CarrSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Flast v. CohenSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- United States v. Munsingwear, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Keyishian v. Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NYSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Speiser v. RandallSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
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3Cited by178 opinions
- Buckley v. ValeoSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Storer v. BrownSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Agins v. City of TiburonSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Keystone Bituminous Coal Assn. v. DeBenedictisSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Reno v. Catholic Social Services, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1993
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