COMMUNIST PARTY v. STATE BD. OF ELEC., STATE OF ILL.

No. 74-1950.

518 F.2d 517 (1975)

COMMUNIST PARTY OF ILLINOIS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS FOR the STATE OF ILLINOIS et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 27, 1975.

Certiorari Denied November 17, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Atty. Gen., Herbert L. Caplan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Howard Eglit, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before SWYGERT and TONE, Circuit Judges, and GRANT, Senior District Judge.


Certiorari Denied November 17, 1975. See 96 S.Ct. 394.

SWYGERT, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs, the Communist Party of Illinois, several of its candidates for state office in the November 5, 1974 general election, and a registered voter desiring to vote for these candidates, filed suit for declaratory and injunctive relief against the State Board of Election Commissioners for the State of Illinois1 seeking to challenge the constitutionality...

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