pointing out that federal courts do not intervene in state election contests for the purpose of deciding issues of state law, if no federal constitutional question is involved
How later courts described this case
- pointing out that federal courts do not intervene in state election contests for the purpose of deciding issues of state law, if no federal constitutional question is involved
- expectation that bill of lading would be issued in accordance with standard form known to all shippers
- “Since this local election contest had turned toward the legality of ballots cast outside the precincts of the voter, a violation of Texas law and obviously a state question, and since this issue was to govern the outcome of the contest, we must point out here that Federal Courts do not intervene in state election contests for the purpose of deciding state law, if no federal constitutional question is involved”
- wherein the Court stated that the U.S. Constitution confers upon the states the "power to control the disposition of contests over elections to ... state and local offices" (citation omitted)
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
This record has no opinion text. It is a disposition such as a denial of certiorari, kept so the case can be found by name and citation.