REPUBLICAN PARTY OF NORTH CAROLINA v. MARTIN

No. C-87-779-G.

682 F.Supp. 834 (1988)

REPUBLICAN PARTY OF NORTH CAROLINA, Bruce Briggs, William R. Sigmon, Marvin K. Gray, R. Howard Riddle, Lloyd Fowler, Joe R. Wilson, R. Walter White, Edgar A. Readling, Jr., Frederic M. Gallagher, and Ralph A. Walker, Plaintiffs, v. James G. MARTIN, Governor of North Carolina; the North Carolina State Board of Elections; Robert N. Hunter, Jr., Chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, Thomas A. Farr, William A. Marsh, Jr., Ruth Turner, Semashko, and June K. Youngblood, members of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, Durham County Board of Elections, Forsyth County Board of Elections, and Guilford County Board of Elections, Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. North Carolina, Greensboro Division.

March 29, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Allen Foster, Greensboro, N.C., for plaintiffs.

Atty. Gen. Lacy Thornburg by James Wallace, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., N.C. Dept. of Justice, Raleigh, N.C., for defendants.

James E. Ferguson, II and Leslie J. Winner, Charlotte, N.C., for intervenor.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

ERWIN, District Judge.

Introduction

This matter is before the court upon defendants' motions for change of venue and to dismiss. The court grants defendants' motion for change of venue to the Eastern District of North Carolina and defendants' motion to dismiss the claims against the Forsyth County Board of Elections, the Durham County Board of Elections, and the Guilford County Board of Elections.

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