Litigants: | Storer v. Brown |
Arguedate: | November 5 |
Argueyear: | 1973 |
Decidedate: | March 26 |
Decideyear: | 1974 |
Fullname: | Storer, et al. v. Brown, Secretary of State of California, et al. |
Usvol: | 415 |
Uspage: | 724 |
Parallelcitations: | 94 S. Ct. 1274; 39 L. Ed. 2d 714; 1974 U.S. LEXIS 118 |
Prior: | Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California |
Subsequent: | Rehearing denied sub. nom., . |
Holding: | Section 6830(d) (Supp. 1974) of the California Elections Code is not unconstitutional. |
Majority: | White |
Joinmajority: | Burger, Stewart, Blackmun, Powell, Rehnquist |
Dissent: | Brennan |
Joindissent: | Douglas, Marshall |
Storer v. Brown, 415 U.S. 724 (1974), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States upheld a California law that prohibited an individual from running for an elected office as an independent candidate if they were registered with a political party within the 12 months prior to the primary election.