Sherman H. SKOLNICK and Dick Gregory, Plaintiffs,
v.
Otto KERNER, as Governor of the State of Illinois and Chairman of the State Electoral Board, Paul Powell, as Secretary of State of the State of Illinois and Secretary of the State Electoral Board, William G. Clark, as Attorney General of the State of Illinois and member of the State Electoral Board, William J. Scott, as Treasurer of the State of Illinois and member of the State Electoral Board, and Michael J. Howlett, as Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Illinois and member of the State Electoral Board of Illinois, Defendants.
United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
October 31, 1966.
October 31, 1966.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Sherman H. Skolnick, Chicago, Ill., pro se.
Jean F. Williams, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff Dick Gregory.
William G. Clark, Atty. Gen., of State of Illinois, Chicago, Ill., for Otto Kerner, William G. Clark and Michael J. Howlett.
Don H. Rueben, Lawrence Gunnels, and Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz & Masters, Chicago, Ill., for William J. Scott and intervening defendant, John W. Freels.
Bernard Kleiman, Gilbert A. Cornfield and Gilbert Feldman, Kleinman, Cornfield & Feldman, Chicago, Ill., for Paul Powell.
Before HASTINGS, Chief Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL, Chief District Judge, and DECKER, District Judge.
United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.
DECKER, District Judge.
This is the second suit filed in this Court attacking the Illinois Constitution's provisions for election of Judges of the Supreme Court.1 The core of the complaint is that residents of Cook County, Illinois, are deprived of federally protected rights under the present election system. We dealt in detail with this problem in Romiti v. Kerner, 256 F.Supp. 35 (N.D.Ill.1966), in...
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