Robert E. Lynch, Fred Hoffman and Phyllis Klein v. John R. Torquato, Edna Lugar and Virgil Moraca

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “the citizen’s constitutional right . . . to [] choo[se] . . . who shall be his elected representatives in the conduct of government” is not a matter or legal issue that falls within “the internal management of a political party”
• “this lawsuit appears to be an effort ... to wrest control of ordinary party affairs from present leadership rather than an attempt to vindi cate the plaintiffs’ [constitutional] right[s].... ”
• “Whether the equalitarian requirement of the Fourteenth Amendment extends to procedural alternatives of primary elections, and particularly to such post-primary emergency nominations . . ., may well be doubted.”
• no state action in party’s internal affairs ; candidate-nomination question left open
• one person, one vote inapplicable to selection of party’s county committees
• one person, one vote inapplicable to selection of party's county committees

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).