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JOHNSTON v. LUNA

Civ. A. No. 3-5373-C.

338 F.Supp. 355 (1972)

Rick JOHNSTON et al. v. Earl LUNA and Bob Bullock, Secretary of State.

United States District Court, N. D. Texas, Dallas Division.

January 20, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda N. Coffee, Palmer & Palmer, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiffs; A. L. Crouch, Fort Worth, Tex., for intervenors Jenkins & Wischkaemper.

Earl Luna, Luna & Jackson, Dallas, Tex., Crawford C. Martin, Atty. Gen. of Texas, Sam Jones, Pat Bailey, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, Tex., for defendants.

Before THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge, and HUGHES and TAYLOR, District Judges.

OPINION AND ORDER

PER CURIAM.

This Court in Carter v. Dies, N.D.Tex. 1970, 321 F.Supp. 1358, previously enjoined the enforcement of Tex.Election Code Ann. Arts. 13.07a, 13.08, 13.08a, 13.15, 13.16 (1967), V.A.T.S. The decision was based on our judgment that the State's interest in recouping election expenses was not of a sufficiently compelling nature to justify the infringement on the first amendment rights of voters...

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