AMERICAN INDEPENDENT PARTY v. AUSTIN

Civ. A. No. 6-71390.

420 F.Supp. 670 (1976)

AMERICAN INDEPENDENT PARTY, Plaintiff, v. Richard H. AUSTIN, Michigan Secretary of State, Defendant.

United States District Court, E. D. Michigan, S. D.

August 25, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Wells, Southfield, Mich., for plaintiff.

Mark E. Blumer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lansing, Mich., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

JOINER, District Judge.

The American Independent Party (AIP) seeks declaratory relief entitling it to list alternative certified slates of candidates on the upcoming November, 1976 general election ballot under the AIP party designation. It claims that its constitutional rights under both the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment were violated by the secretary of state's insistence that no AIP candidates...

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