Legal Opinion
Robert E. Lynch, Fred Hoffman and Phyllis Klein v. John R. Torquato, Edna Lugar and Virgil Moraca
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided April 2, 1965No. 14911_1PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HASTIE, Circuit Judge.
This appeal has been taken from an order dismissing a complaint in which registered Democrats in Cambria County, Pennsylvania have challenged the present method of selecting a party County Chairman as denying them the equal protection of the laws guaranteed", by the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Pennsylvania election code provides for the government of the local affairs of a political party within a county by a County Committee “elected at the spring primary, or appointed, as the rules of the * * * part[y] within the county may provide”, and rule-making power is expressly…
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