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HOPFMANN v. CONNOLLY

No. 84-1317.

769 F.2d 24 (1985)

Alwin E. HOPFMANN, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Michael Joseph CONNOLLY, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 31, 1985.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied September 23, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence J. Ball, Boston, Mass., and Laurence Elgin, Washington, D.C., on brief for plaintiffs, appellants.

Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen. and Alexander G. Gray, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief, Elections Div., Boston, Mass., on brief, for defendants, appellees, Michael Joseph Connolly, Secretary of State and Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen.

James Roosevelt, Jr., James H. Wexler, Keith C. Long, and Herrick & Smith, Boston, Mass., on brief, for defendants, appellees, Chester G. Atkins and The Democratic State Committee of Mass.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, COWEN, Senior Circuit Judge, and BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied September 23, 1985.

COWEN, Senior Circuit Judge.

In Hopfmann v. Connolly, ___ U.S. ___, 105 S.Ct. 2106, 85 L.Ed.2d 469 (1985), the United States Supreme Court vacated in part and remanded our decision, which is reported in 746 F.2d 97 (1st Cir.1984). In that decision, we had held that the enforcement by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of its Democratic Party's so-called "15 percent...

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