LaRouche, Lyndon H. v. Fowler, Donald L.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that the Burdick test was inappropriate in a challenge against the Democratic National Committee’s internal rules because the test “was not designed for a case in which the First Amendment weighs on both sides of the balance”
• finding that the Burdick test was inappropriate in a challenge against the Democratic National Committee’s internal rules because the test “was not designed for a case in which the First Amendment weighs on both sides of the balance”
• reversing the single-judge district court because it “lack[ed] jurisdiction to decide the merits of [the] issue because the question properly belong[ed] before a three-judge district court.” (emphasis added)
• “[T]he Party’s ability to define who is a ‘bona fide Democrat’ is nothing less than the Party’s ability to define itself.”
• controversy must be “by its very nature short in duration, so that it could not, or probably would not, be able to be adjudicated while fully live.” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[I]t is the sine qua non of a political party that it represent a particular political viewpoint. And it is the purpose of a party convention to decide on that viewpoint, in part by deciding which candidate will bear its standard.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).