United States Eleventh Circuit

Individual Democrats lack standing to bring a First Amendment challenge to Georgia's "open primary" election system, in which all voters, regardless of personal political affiliation, are permitted to vote in the Democratic Primary; their allegations are insufficient to state a claim for denial or abridgement of the right to vote.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/17/2004
• Published 05/17/2004

Judges

• BUCKLEW, District Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, HULL, Circuit Judge, and BUCKLEW , District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen Michael Cody, Miami, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• J.M. Rauffauf, Decatur, GA, Dennis R. Dunn, GA Dept. of Law, Atlanta, GA, Charles G. Hicks, DeKalb County Law Dept., Decatur, GA, Michael Van Stephens, II, Karen Gilpin Thomas, Gwinnett County Law Dept., Lawrenceville, GA, Neeli Ben-David, Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP, Stefan Ernst Ritter, Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.