Legal Opinion
McCarthy v. Garrahy
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided November 13, 1978No. Civ. A. 76-0449PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PETTINE, Chief Judge.
The plaintiffs seek injunctive relief and a declaration that Rhode Island General Law § 17-16-8 1 is unconstitutional. Because section 17-16-8 requires an independent candidate to collect out of 1000 total petition signatures 25 from each of the five counties in the state, the plaintiffs assert that the section unlawfully deprives and infringes the rights secured to them under Article II, Section 1, clauses 2 and 4 and Article VI, clause 2 of the United States Constitution and the First, Twelfth, and Fourteenth amendments thereto. 2
Plaintiff, Eugene J. McCarthy,…
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