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SANGMEISTER v. WOODARD

Nos. 77-1365, 77-1366 and 76-1953.

565 F.2d 460 (1977)

George E. SANGMEISTER et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Clara Hartley WOODARD, County Clerk of Will County, Illinois, Defendant-Appellant, The State Board of Elections of the State of Illinois, Intervening Defendant-Appellant. William WALSH, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS OF CHICAGO et al., Defendants-Appellants, Illinois Association of County Clerks and Recorders, Intervening Defendant-Appellant. Stephen J. CULLITON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS OF the COUNTY OF DuPAGE, and Raymond MacDonald, William Toerpe, Jr., and Jean McNamara, Individually and as Commissioners of the Board of Election Commissioners of the County of DuPage, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 7, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Devine, John H. Bickley, Jr., Michael L. Levinson, Andrew M. Raucci, Chicago, Ill., Thomas C. Kelleghan, Wheaton, Ill., Joseph S. Wright, Jr., Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

Joseph M. Cernugel, Joliet, Ill., James T. Ryan, John Tobias Dixon, Chicago, Ill., Thomas Sisul, Downers Grove, Ill., Maurice J. McCarthy, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before SPRECHER, TONE and BAUER, Circuit Judges.

SPRECHER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal challenges the decisions of two district courts holding that the practice by Illinois County Clerks of placing their own political party in the first or top position on voting ballots in all general elections violates the equal protection clause.

I

This appeal actually involves three different suits brought against three different County Clerks or County Boards of Election Commissioners in Illinois. Initially...

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