Supreme Court· 2/24/1972

Bullock v. Carter

Citations

405 U.S. 134
92 S. Ct. 849
31 L. Ed. 2d 92
1972 U.S. LEXIS 82

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

holding that expensive filing fees keeping candidates from appearing on ballot harmed voters by preventing them from voting for the candidate of their choice
holding that primary ballot access restrictions possessing a \patently exclusionary character\ must be \closely scrutinized\
holding that Texas’s filing fees were unreasonably high and did not constitute a legitimate eligibility requirement
holding that the imposition of filing fees in order to seek the nomination of a party constituted a constitutional violation
holding that primary ballot access restrictions possessing a “patently exclusionary character” must be “closely scrutinized”
recognizing that “a State has a legitimate interest in regulating the number of candidates on the ballot”

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Judges: Burger, Powell, Rehnqüist

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