LYNCH v. TORQUATO

No. 14911.

343 F.2d 370 (1965)

Robert E. LYNCH, Fred Hoffman and Phyllis Klein, Appellants, v. John R. TORQUATO, Edna Lugar and Virgil Moraca.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided April 2, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Louis Coppersmith, Margolis, Coppersmith & Shahade, Johnstown, Pa., for appellants.

Walter A. Criste, Cresson, Pa., for appellee.

Before McLAUGHLIN, STALEY and HASTIE, Circuit Judges.


HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

This appeal has been taken from an order dismissing a complaint in which registered Democrats in Cambria County, Pennsylvania have challenged the present method of selecting a party County Chairman as denying them the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.

The Pennsylvania election code provides for the government of the local affairs of a political party within a county by a County Committee "elected at...

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