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SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY v. GILLIGAN

No. 70-21.

406 U.S. 583 (1972)

SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY ET AL. v. GILLIGAN, GOVERNOR OF OHIO, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 30, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sanford Jay Rosen argued the cause for appellants. With him on the brief were Melvin L. Wulf, Benjamin Sheerer, and Jerry Gordon.

Donald J. Guittar, Assistant Attorney General of Ohio, argued the cause for appellees. With him on the brief were William J. Brown, Attorney General, and Harold C. Heiss.

MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellant Socialist Labor Party has engaged in a prolonged legal battle to invalidate various Ohio laws restricting minority party access to the ballot. Concluding that "the totality of the Ohio restrictive laws taken as a whole" violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, this Court struck down those laws in Socialist Labor Party v. Rhodes, 393 U.S. 23

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