Duncan v. Poythress

ORDER

RICHARD C. FREEMAN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs bring this civil rights action, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, in that they were denied the right to vote for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia in a special election. They contend that defendants Governor George D. Busbee and former Associate Justice Jesse G. Bowles of the Supreme Court of Georgia manipulated the events surrounding Justice Bowles’ resignation from the court to permit the Governor to appoint…