Today in Supreme Court History: September 16

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Sep 16, 2023
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Socialist Labor Party v. Rhodes, 89 S.Ct. 3 (decided September 16, 1968): Stewart declines to order Ohio Secretary of State to place Socialist Labor Party candidates for federal office on ballot; Party has only 108 members and the relief it originally requested (space for write-ins) had already been granted (a much larger third party was involved in this litigation, and a month later the Court held that Ohio law making it impossible for any third party to get onto ballot violated Equal Protection, 393 U.S. 23)

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