United States Third Circuit

The Pennsylvania election code requiring candidates for various local, state, and national offices to pay a filing fee prior to having their names placed on the ballot, is unconstitutional as applied to plaintiff, but the permanent injunction of the code as applied to all candidates is vacated.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/11/2003
• Published 09/11/2003

Judges

• Before: NYGAARD, ROTH and WEIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• D. Michael Fisher, Attorney General, John G. Knorr, III (Argued), Chief Deputy Attorney General, Chief, Appellate Litigation Section, Gregory R. Neuhauser, Senior Deputy Attorney General, Office of Attorney General, Harrisburg, PA, for Appellants/Cross Appellees., Bonita P. Tenneriello (Argued), John C. Bonifaz, Brenda Wright, Lisa J. Danetz, National Voting Rights Institute, Boston, MA, Jordan B. Yeager, Boockvar & Yeager, Doylestown, PA, David Kairys, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellees/Cross Appellants.