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GREEN v. LAYTON

Docket No. L.A. 30415.

14 Cal.3d 922 (1975)

538 P.2d 225

123 Cal. Rptr. 97

AUSTIN H. GREEN et al., Petitioners, v. REX E. LAYTON, as City Clerk, etc., Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

August 6, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Burke, Williams & Sorensen, Colin Lennard and Brian A. Pierik for Petitioners.

Burt Pines, City Attorney, Robert Thomson and Claude E. Hilker, Assistant City Attorneys, and Jerome Montgomery, Deputy City Attorney, for Respondent.

OPINION

MOSK, J.

In a number of recent decisions, the United States Supreme Court and this court have held that a statute which requires a candidate for public office to pay a filing fee as the exclusive means of securing a place on an election ballot violates the equal protection clause of the United States Constitution and that some reasonable alternative means of access to the ballot...

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