CRANSTON v. THOMSON

Nos. 4445-4447.

530 P.2d 726 (1975)

Albert H. CRANSTON et al., Appellants (Plaintiffs below), Wyoming Political Action Committee for Education and Wyoming State AFL-CIO (Intervenors Below), v. Thyra THOMSON, Secretary of State, et al., Appellees (Defendants below). WYOMING POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE FOR EDUCATION, Appellant (Intervenor below), Wyoming State AFL-CIO Intervenor below), and Albert H. Cranston et al., (Plaintiffs below), v. Thyra THOMSON, Secretary of State et al., Appellees (Defendants below). WYOMING STATE AFL-CIO, Appellant (Intervenor below), Wyoming Political Action Committee for Education (Intervenor below), and Albert H. Cranston et al., (Plaintiffs below), v. Thyra THOMSON, Secretary of State, et al., Appellees (Defendants below).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

Rehearing Denied March 31, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter C. Urbigkit, Jr., of Urbigkit, Moriarity, Halle & Mackey, Cheyenne, for appellants Cranston and Wyo. State AFL-CIO.

Charles E. Graves and Patrick E. Hacker, Cheyenne, for appellant Wyo. Political Action Committee for Ed.

Laurence Gold, Washington, D.C., for appellant Wyo. State AFL-CIO.

David B. Kennedy, Atty. Gen., Jerome F. Statkus, Asst. Atty. Gen., and William M. Sutton, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Cheyenne, for appellees, Thyra Thomson and the Office of the Attorney General, State of Wyoming.

John Lynch, Deputy County and Prosecuting Attorney, Cheyenne, for appellees, Thomas J. Carroll and John B. Huisman.

Before PARKER, C.J., McEWAN, GUTHRIE and McCLINTOCK, JJ., and ARMSTRONG, District Judge.


Mr. Chief Justice PARKER delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal by plaintiffs and the two intervenor organizations from an order dismissing the complaints for failure to state a justiciable cause.1 In their complaint plaintiffs sought to declare void and unconstitutional § 22.1-401, W.S. 1957, 1973 Cum.Supp., requiring a candidate's written approval to expenditures on his behalf, and certain subsections of § 22...

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