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RIPON SOCIETY, INC. v. NATIONAL REPUBLICAN PARTY

Civ. A. No. 2238-71.

343 F.Supp. 168 (1972)

The RIPON SOCIETY, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. NATIONAL REPUBLICAN PARTY and Republican National Committee, Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

May 4, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Amory, Jr., Washington, D. C., and Robert M. Pennoyer, Patterson, Belknap & Webb, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Fred C. Scribner, Jr., Washington, D. C., for defendant Republican National Committee.

Davis R. Robinson, Washington, D. C., and E. N. Carpenter, II, Wilmington, Del., and David B. Kennedy, Burgess, Kennedy & Davis, Sheridan, Wyo., for Republican State Committee of Del. and Republican State Central Committee of Wyo., amici curiae.

OPINION

WILLIAM B. JONES, District Judge.

Plaintiffs in this action challenge the formula for apportionment of delegates to the Republican National Convention as unconstitutional and in violation of Article II, Section 1; the Fifth Amendment; and the Fourteenth Amendment, Sections 1 and 2, of the Constitution. The jurisdiction of this court is invoked under 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3) and (4); 28 U.S.C. § 2201; 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985

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