DREW v. SCRANTON

Civ. A. No. 8293.

229 F.Supp. 308 (1963)

Ira Walton DREW, J. Claude Bowen, John B. McCrea, Irving Kaufman and Jean McCoskey, Plaintiffs, and Marshall J. Seidman, Intervening Plaintiff, v. William W. SCRANTON, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, George I. Bloom, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Walter E. Alessandroni, Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Raymond P. Shafer, President of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, M. Harvey Taylor, President pro tempore of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and W. Stuart Helm, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Defendants, and Donald C. Rubel and Anne D. McKinley, Intervening Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. Pennsylvania.

December 6, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin Comisky and Goncer M. Krestal, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs. Marshall J. Seidman, Philadelphia, Pa., intervening plaintiff, pro se.

Walter E. Alessandroni, Atty. Gen., and Edward Friedman, Deputy Atty. Gen., Harrisburg, Pa., for defendants.

R. Lawrence Coughlin, Jr., and Edward E. Russell, Philadelphia, Pa., for intervening defendants.

Before MARIS, Circuit Judge, and SHERIDAN and NEALON, District Judges.


MARIS, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit by Pennsylvania citizens and taxpayers. The complaint contains four prayers for relief. These are (a) for an injunction to restrain the Governor, the Secretary of the Commonwealth, the Attorney General, the President of the Senate, the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth from conducting any primary or general election...

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