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JACKSON v. FIELDS

478 Pa. 247 (1978)

386 A.2d 533

Andre Lavon JACKSON, Appellant, v. Barton A. FIELDS, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Louis Mete, Commissioner of Elections, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided May 5, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andre Lavon Jackson, I.P.P., Stanford A. Hines, Philadelphia, for appellant.

Barton A. Fields, Louis Mete, Wilbur S. Metcalf, Michael T. McCarthy, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellees.

Before EAGEN, C.J., and O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY, NIX, MANDERINO and LARSEN, JJ.

OPINION

PER CURIAM.

On March 7, 1978, the last day for filing nomination petitions for the 1978 primary election, appellant submitted to the Secretary of the Commonwealth a petition entitled "Nomination Petition for the Office of Representative in Congress" containing 237 signatures. The petition appeared to be in order except that in the body of the introduction to the petition, appellant erroneously stated that the petition

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