Legal Opinion
Lee v. Secretary of State & Mahoney
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided October 11, 1968No. [Nos. 205 and 206 (Adv.), September Term, 1968.]PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, C. J.
The Circuit Court for Baltimore County rejected two challenges to the right of George P. Mahoney to run in the November 1968 election as an independent candidate for the Senate of the United States, and we affirmed the court’s actions by per curiam order in order to permit the timely preparation of absentee ballots. We now set out our reasons for the affirmances.
Mahoney, having failed in various attempts to gain high political office in Maryland as a registered democrat, decided to run for the Senate of the United States as an independent candidate. Code (1967 Supp.), Art. 33, § 4-1 (a),…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Heaps v. CobbCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1945
- State Insurance Commissioner v. National Bureau of Casualty UnderwritersCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1967
- Ayers v. WatsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
- Hecht v. CrookCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1945
- Board of Supervisors of Elections v. WeissCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1958
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3Cited by15 opinions
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- Soley v. State Commission on Human RelationsCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1976
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- Agrarian, Inc. v. Zoning InspectorCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1971
- Bits "N" Bytes Computer Supplies, Inc. v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.Court of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1993
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