# Socialist Workers Party v. Ogilvie

> District Court, N.D. Illinois · September 21, 1972 · 357 F. Supp. 109

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8803804

## Case

- **Full name:** The SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY OF ILLINOIS v. Richard B. OGILVIE
- **Court:** District Court, N.D. Illinois
- **Decided:** September 21, 1972
- **Citations:** 357 F. Supp. 109; 1972 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11900
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by McMillen
- **Judges:** Cummings, Marovitz, McMillen, Memillen
- **Cited by:** 5 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding state’s refusal to certify candidacy of underage presidential candidate “violates no federal- right of Plaintiffs”
- finding no First Amendment violation for failing to certify a new political party with no full slate of candidates
- rejecting party’s First Amendment challenge to exclusion from ballot of presidential candidate who did not meet constitutional age requirement

## Opinion text

McMILLEN, District Judge
(concurring and dissenting).
I concur in the result in this case but I respectfully dissent from Conclusion of Law 19a. See my dissent in The Communist Party of Illinois et al. v. Ogilvie et al., D.C., 357 F.Supp. 105 , entered today.

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