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· 7/9/1976

Clough v. Guzzi

Citations

  • 416 F. Supp. 1057
  • 1976 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 14203

How courts have described this case

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

  • “[Candidates] have access to those voters and may, in theory and possibly in practice, so educate them as to eliminate the donkey vote and thus eliminate the statistical position bias.”
  • incumbent first followed by others in alphabetical order meets rational basis test - pre-Burdick/Anderson
  • “A number of written studies ... purpor[t] to demonstrate the effects of the designation of first position on the outcome of elections. Some of them support, and some contradict, plaintiffs factual premise.”

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Judges: Campbell, Garrity, Skinner

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