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STATE EX REL. KELMAN v. SCHAFFER

161 Conn. 522 (1971)

STATE EX REL. JAMES KELMAN ET AL. v. GLORIA SCHAFFER, SECRETARY OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT STATE EX REL. JAMES KELMAN ET AL. v. REGINALD J. REYNOLDS, TOWN CLERK, THE TOWN OF NEW CANAAN

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided October 27, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael P. Koskoff, for the appellants (plaintiffs) in each case.

Raymond J. Cannon, assistant attorney general, with whom, on the brief, was Robert K. Killian, attorney general, for the appellee (defendant) in the first case and as amicus curiae in the second case.

Ira E. Hicks, for the appellee (defendant) in the second case.

HOUSE, C. J., COTTER, THIM, SHAPIRO and LOISELLE, JS.

HOUSE, C. J.

These two cases were consolidated for trial in the Superior Court in Fairfield County. The actions were brought by two plaintiffs, each between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one years. In the first instance the plaintiffs sought writs of mandamus ordering that their names be placed on the ballot in the town of New Canaan as candidates for the town council, for which positions they had received the endorsement of the Democratic Town Committee and the...

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