DRUM v. SCOTT

No. C-221-WS-71.

337 F.Supp. 588 (1972)

Renn DRUM et al., Plaintiffs, v. J. Brian SCOTT et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. North Carolina, Winston-Salem Division.

Decided February 3, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Renn Drum, pro se and for other plaintiffs.

Robert Morgan, Atty. Gen., James F. Bullock, Deputy Atty. Gen., and Thomas W. Earnhardt, Associate Atty., N. C. Dept. of Justice, Raleigh, N. C., for defendants.

Before CRAVEN, Circuit Judge, and GORDON and JONES, District Judges.


CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:

This is a class action brought against members of the North Carolina State Board of Elections and the Secretary of State of North Carolina to have N.C.G. S. § 163-201 declared constitutionally invalid and to enjoin state officers from conducting primaries and elections for Congressmen under the enacted scheme. We hold N.C.G.S. § 163-201 to be not in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and to be a constitutionally...

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