Alwin E. Hopfmann v. Michael Joseph Connolly

COWEN, Senior Circuit Judge.

In Hopfmann v. Connolly, — U.S. -, 105 S.Ct. 2106, 85 L.Ed.2d 469 (1985), the United States Supreme Court vacated in part and remanded our decision, which is reported in 746 F.2d 97 (1st Cir.1984). In that decision, we had held that the enforcement by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of its Democratic Party’s so-called “15 percent rule,” which limits ballot access in the state primary to candidates who receive 15 percent or more of the vote in the party’s convention, did not violate the United States Constitution. In rejecting one of appellants’ contentions, that…