Knight v. Gray

This expedited appeal involves an action for injunctive and declaratory relief against James R. Knight, as chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee, by four candidates for the Alabama legislature, each of whom was declared ineligible to run in the Democratic Primary by a subcommittee of the State Democratic Executive Committee. The subcommittee held that each candidate (plaintiff) did not meet the party's one-year residency requirement, as it construes § 47, Ala. Const. 1901, or the party rule requiring that a candidate be a "qualified elector" in the district which he seeks to…