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LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF MICHIGAN v. JOHNSON

No. 12-2153.

714 F.3d 929 (2013)

LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF MICHIGAN; Gary Johnson; Denee Rockman-Moon, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Ruth JOHNSON, Defendant-Appellee, Republican Party of Michigan, Intervenor-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

May 1, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ON BRIEF: Gary Sinawski , Brooklyn, New York, Mark R. Brown , Columbus, Ohio, for Appellants. Denise C. Barton , Nicole Grimm , Office of the Michigan Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan, for Appellee State of Michigan. Eric E. Doster , Foster, Swift, Lansing, Michigan, Peter H. Ellsworth , Dickinson Wright , Lansing, Michigan, for Appellee Republican Party.

Before: KEITH, MARTIN, and ROGERS, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

ROGERS, Circuit Judge.

This case involves the Libertarian Party's challenge to a Michigan election regulation — the "sore loser" statute — which prevents a candidate who has run in and lost a party primary from running as a candidate of another party in the subsequent general election. The Libertarian Party of Michigan asserts that Michigan wrongly prohibited its presidential candidate, Gary Johnson, from appearing on the November 2012...

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