__NOTOC__ Marchioro v. Chaney, , was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that a state statute that requires each major political party to have a State Committee consisting of two persons from each county in the State does not, by so restricting the composition of the State Committee, violate the rights of members of a political party to freedom of association protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments insofar as concerns the Committee's activities involving purely internal party decisions.Syllabus of .
Background
The Supreme Court granted certiorari.
Opinion of the court
The Supreme Court issued an opinion on June 4, 1979.
Later developments
The Washington Supreme Court's decision in this case became a major case for understanding the Equal Rights Amendment within the Washington Constitution. It established that the ERA prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, not sexual classifications intended to remedy previous sex discrimination.
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