In re Sorg

How courts have described this case

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• holding the favoring of incumbents when breaking ballot order ties was “a purposeful and unlawful invasion of [the] plaintiffs’ Fourteenth Amendment right to fair and evenhanded treatment”
• holding the favoring of incumbents when breaking ballot order ties was unconstitutional
• favoring incumbents when breaking ballot order ties violated “Fourteenth Amendment right to fair and evenhanded treatment”
• ordering the “drawing of candidates’ names by lot or other nondiscriminatory means by which each of such candidates shall have an equal opportunity to be placed first on the ballot”
• ordering the “drawing of candidates’ names by lot or other nondiscriminatory means by which each of such candidates shall have an equal opportunity to be placed first on the ballot”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).