Legal Opinion
Irish v. Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota
District Court, D. Minnesota
Decided August 7, 1968No. 3-68 Civ. 178PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEVILLE, District Judge.
By this proceeding this court is asked to hold that the “one man-one vote” principle fathered by Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 82 S.Ct. 691, 7 L.Ed.2d 663 (1962), decided on the basis of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution is applicable to a Minnesota state political party convention, so as legally to enable a challenge successfully to be made to the composition of the convention membership and thus void, in part at least, the convention proceedings. No authority has been found for so doing and all of the parties…
2Cases cited42 opinions
- Baker v. CarrSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Reynolds v. SimsSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Flast v. CohenSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Shelley v. KraemerSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Smith v. AllwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Buckley v. ValeoCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1975
- The Ripon Society, Inc. v. National Republican Party the Ripon Society, Inc. v. National Republican PartyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1976
- O'BRIEN v. BrownSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- The State of Georgia v. The National Democratic PartyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1971
- William J. Irish v. Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party of MinnesotaCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1968
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