SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY v. HILL

No. 72-3325.

483 F.2d 554 (1973)

The SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Attorney General John L. HILL and Mayor Louie Welch, Individually and in their Representative capacities, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied November 8, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph G. Rollins, Senior Asst. City Atty., Houston, Tex., for Welch.

John L. Hill, Atty. Gen. of Tex., Sam L. Jones, Jr., W. O. Shultz, II, James C. McCoy, Asst. Attys. Gen., Robert W. Gauss, Austin, Tex., for Crawford Martin and Bullock.

Ronald D. Cohen, Houston, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before WISDOM, GEWIN and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied November 8, 1973.

CLARK, Circuit Judge:

We are all Republicans—we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. So spoke Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration...

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