Gerende v. Board of Supervisors of Elections

U.S.

Court: Supreme Court of the United States

Citations: 341 U.S. 56, 95 L. Ed. 2d 745, 71 S. Ct. 565, SCDB 1950-061, 1951 U.S. LEXIS 2015

Decision Date: 4/12/1951

Docket Number: No. 577

Jurisdiction: U.S.

Bluebook Citation: Gerende v. Board of Supervisors of Elections, 341 U.S. 56, 95 L. Ed. 2d 745, 71 S. Ct. 565, SCDB 1950-061, 1951 U.S. LEXIS 2015 (1951)

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GERENDE v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ELECTIONS OF BALTIMORE.

Judges

Mr. Justice Reed concurs in the result.

Attorneys

I. Duke Avnet and William H. Murphy argued the cause for appellant. With them on the brief were Harold Buchman and Mitchell A. Dubow.
Hall Hammond, Attorney General of Maryland, and /. Edgar Harvey, Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause and filed a brief for appellees.

majority Per Curiam.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Court of Appeals of the State of Maryland the effect of which is to deny the appellant a place on the ballot for a municipal election in the City of Baltimore on the ground that she has refuséd to file an affidavit required by state law. Md. Laws 1949, c. 86, § 15. -Md.-, 78 A. 2d 660. The scope of the state law was passed on in Shub v. Simpson, - Md. -, 76 A. 2d 332. We read this decision to hold that to obtain a place on a Maryland ballot a candidate need only make oath that he is not a person who is engaged “in one way or another in the attempt to overthrow the government by force or violence,” and that he is not knowingly a member of an organization engaged in such an attempt. -Md. at-, 76 A. 2d at 338. At the bar of this Court the Attorney General of the State of Maryland declared that he would advise the proper authorities to accept an affidavit in these terms as satisfying in full the statutory requirement. Under these circumstances and with this understanding, the judgment of the Maryland Court of Appeals is

Affirmed.

Mr. Justice Reed concurs in the result.

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