GREEN PARTY OF TENNESSEE v. HARGETT

No. 14-5435.

791 F.3d 684 (2015)

GREEN PARTY OF TENNESSEE; Constitution Party of Tennessee, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. TRE HARGETT, in his official capacity as Tennessee Secretary of State; MARK GOINS, in his official capacity as Coordinator of Elections for the State of Tennessee, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

July 2, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ON BRIEF: Janet M. Kleinfelter , Office of the Tennessee Attorney General, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellants. Alan P. Woodruff , Arden, North Carolina, for Appellees.

Before: COLE, Chief Judge; COOK and WHITE, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

This is another challenge to Tennessee's statutes that provide ballot access for minor political parties. Two minor parties — the Green Party of Tennessee and the Constitution Party of Tennessee — brought suit challenging these statutes under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The district court...

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