FAIR v. FAIR

No. 69-263-Civ.T.

317 F.Supp. 859 (1970)

Jim FAIR, Plaintiff, and Elizabeth M. Axtell and Nell S. Stewart, Intervenors, v. Jim FAIR et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. Florida, Tampa Division.

July 10, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Fair, pro se.

Walter Crosby Few, Tampa, Fla., for Board of Public Instruction and members of Board.

T. A. Pacyna, Asst. Atty. Gen., for Earl Faircloth.

Michael J. O'Brien, for County Election Board.

Michael T. Foster, for Jos. G. Spicola, Jr., State's Atty.

Richard H. Frank, Tampa, Fla., for intervenors.

Before DYER, Circuit Judge, and KRENTZMAN and SCOTT, District Judges.


PER CURIAM:

This action, which was commenced in July, 1969, challenges Article VII, Sections 9 and 12 of the Florida Constitution, as amended in 1968, F.S.A. on the ground that the provisions of such sections limiting the electorate in bond and millage elections to persons who are the owners of freeholds not wholly exempt from taxation are unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution. Specifically at issue is the validity of...

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