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RIDDELL v. NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY

No. 72-2437.

508 F.2d 770 (1975)

Tom H. RIDDELL, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, Cross-Appellees, v. The NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY et al., Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 21, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George F. Woodliff, Curtis E. Coker, James A. Peden, Jr., Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellants, cross-appellees.

Charles Morgan, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., Norman Siegel, New York City, John C. Brittain, Jr., Frank R. Parker, Jackson, Miss., Joseph A. Califano, Earl C. Dudley, Jr., Washington, D. C., Morris Brown, Emily Carssow, Neil Bradley, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants-appellees, cross-appellants.

William Allain, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Miss., Jackson, Miss., for 3rd party defendant cross-appellees.

Before TUTTLE, GODBOLD and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This case presents serious issues concerning the operation of our political democracy. In it two different groups vie for the right to call themselves "The Democratic Party of the State of Mississippi" and, when the complaint was originally filed, for the right to represent the Democrats of Mississippi at the 1972 Democratic National Convention. This latter claim was settled by the convention itself, and thus we need not consider it at this...

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