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SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY v. SECRETARY OF STATE

No. 84-3806.

765 F.2d 1417 (1985)

SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY; Leroy Watson; Louise Pittell; and Dean Peoples, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SECRETARY OF STATE OF the State of WASHINGTON, Ralph Munro, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 17, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel H. Smith, Seattle, Wash., for plaintiffs-appellants.

James Johnson, SAAG Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Olympia, Wash., for defendant-appellee.

Before BROWNING, Chief Judge, GOODWIN and SKOPIL, Circuit Judges.

JAMES R. BROWNING, Chief Judge:

Plaintiffs filed suit challenging the constitutionality of Wash.Rev.Code section 29.18.110 (West Supp.1985) on the ground that it effectively barred minor parties from participating in general elections for statewide office and thus deprived these parties, their members, and the voters of Washington of rights protected by the first and fourteenth amendments. Both parties filed motions for...

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