Legal Opinion
Ulland v. Growe
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided January 13, 1978No. 47324PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TODD, Justice.
Charles Berg and several other parties 1 brought this action against Joan Growe, Minnesota secretary of state, and others, challenging on equal protection grounds the constitutionality of the Minnesota statute which governs the placement of candidates’ names on election ballots in Minnesota. Under the present statutory scheme, names of party-designated candidates must precede those of independent candidates on partisan election ballots. Berg, as an independent candidate, will never have his name appear first on a ballot. The trial court found the statute to be constitutional. We…
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3Cited by16 opinions
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