Whig Party of Alabama v. Siegelman

FINAL ORDER

CLEMON, District Judge.

Based on the accompanying Memorandum Of Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED, ADJUDGED, DECREED, and DECLARED as follows:

1. § 17-7-l(a)(2) of the Code of Alabama of 1975 as amended, as applied to those political parties ineligible to hold primary elections under Alabama law, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and, accordingly the defendants are enjoined from enforcing the said statutory provision against political parties ineligible to hold primary elections under Alabama law in a way that…