anderson-burdick-test

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-967 Pennsylvania v. Bette Eakin, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-17 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived anderson-burdick-test election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mail-in-ballots voting-rights Does Pennsylvania's requirement that mail-in voters provide a handwritten date when signing a preprinted declaration on a ballot return envelope viola…
24-854 Mark Miller, et al. v. Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied Response Waived anderson-burdick-test ballot-access election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-party-rights It is undisputed that a state may not condition participation in its elections on the payment of a fee. In this case, the uncontroverted evidence esta…
22-893 Libertarian Party of New York, et al. v. New York State Board of Elections, et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Amici (1) anderson-burdick-test ballot-access election-law equal-protection first-amendment minor-parties political-parties signature-requirements 1. Did the courts below properly apply the Anderson-Burdick standard as a "two-tracked approach" rather than as "a sliding-scale balancing analysis" w…
20-1072 Chad Thompson, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Amici (1) anderson-burdick anderson-burdick-test ballot-access ballot-initiative electoral-rights first-amendment initiative recurring-issue signature-gathering strict-scrutiny Whether and how the First Amendment applies to regulations that impede a person's ability to place an initiative on the ballot.