Legal Opinion
Wendy A. Georges v. Clifford M. Carney, Jean McNamara and William Toerpe, and Illinois State Board of Elections, Intervening
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 16, 1982No. 82-2400PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal from the denial of a preliminary injunction brings up to us questions of freedom of speech and of equal protection of the laws arising from the methods by which the Illinois Election Code rations access to the ballot by those who wish to put to the electorate a question rather than a candidate. The plaintiffs in this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 are members of the DuPage County Citizens for Nuclear Arms Freeze. They want the ballot in DuPage County in the next general election, which is to be held on November 2, 1982, to contain a question asking, “shall the…
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3Cited by20 opinions
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