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GEORGES v. CARNEY

No. 82-2400.

691 F.2d 297 (1982)

Wendy A. GEORGES, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Clifford M. CARNEY, Jean McNamara and William Toerpe, Defendants-Appellees, and Illinois State Board of Elections, Intervening Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 16, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jayne W. Barnard, Jenner & Block, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Thomas C. Kelleghan, Wheaton, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

James M. Scanlon, Ill. State Bd. of Elections, Tyrone C. Fahner, Atty. Gen. of Ill., Chicago, for intervenor-defendant.

Before CUMMINGS, Chief Judge, and CUDAHY and POSNER, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal from the denial of a preliminary injunction brings up to us questions of freedom of speech and of equal protection of the laws arising from the methods by which the Illinois Election Code rations access to the ballot by those who wish to put to the electorate a question rather than a candidate. The plaintiffs in this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 are members of the DuPage County Citizens for Nuclear Arms Freeze. They want the...

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