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25A873 Patricia Tillman v. Illinois State Board of Elections, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-02-04 Application ballot-access candidate-exclusion election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment irreparable-harm Question not identified.
25-854 Adam Holley v. Benjamin M. Lepak, in His Official Capacity as Oklahoma Secretary of State, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending ballot-access constitutional-rights elections-clause eleventh-amendment primary-election state-action 1. Whether, under the Elections Clause, U.S. Constitution Article I § 4 Clause 1, and this Court's decision in U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514…
25-552 Nicholas Lupo, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response Waived ballot-access elector-candidates electoral-college first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-election Is not States ' premature adjudication of qualifications of Elector Candidates ' Pledged Candidates unconstitutional and violation of the foundational…
25-301 Frank Marshall, et ux. v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response Waived ballot-access electoral-college first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-qualifications state-election-law For the first time in the history of the United States, a State violated the foundational principles of the Electoral College by removing bona fide Pr…
25-5612 Andrew W. Bell v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure ballot-access constitutional-rights due-process election-law procedural-fairness 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit violate Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 41(b) by issuing a mandate while rehearing en banc was pending, and whether re…
25A69 Nicholas Lupo, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-17 Presumed Complete ballot-access election-law electoral-college first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-eligibility Question not identified.
24-1026 Oregon v. Committee to Recall Dan Holladay, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) ballot-access circuit-split direct-democracy first-amendment procedural-requirement voter-rights When a neutral, procedural requirement burdens voters' advancement of direct-democracy measures to the ballot, does that requirement affect any intere…
24-6604 Siddhanth Sharma v. Alan Hirsch, Chairman of North Carolina State Board of Elections, in His Official Capacity, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied IFP ballot-access candidate-qualifications election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment voter-privacy Whether a North Carolina law requiring felony disclosure for congressional candidates and displaying voter addresses violates constitutional rights an…
24-862 Michelle MacDonald v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State Minnesota 2025-02-12 Denied Response Waived ballot-access constitutional-challenge election-law judicial-candidates legal-qualification state-licensing Is an election law requiring proof that judicial candidates have state law licenses in order to qualify as 'learned in the law' unconstitutional under…
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 Whether a statutory scheme compelling candidates and political parties to spend substantial funds to qualify for the ballot violates the First and Fou…
24A699 Oregon v. Committee to Recall Dan Holladay, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-16 Presumed Complete ballot-access election-administration first-amendment recall-election signature-petition state-regulation Whether the First Amendment requires heightened judicial scrutiny of state procedural regulations that potentially inhibit ballot access for recall el…
24A576 Indiana Green Party, et al. v. Diego Morales, Indiana Secretary of State Seventh Circuit 2024-12-12 Presumed Complete ballot-access election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties signature-requirements Whether Indiana's ballot access statutory scheme imposing substantial financial burdens on new political parties violates the First and Fourteenth Ame…
24-646 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. v. Caroline Cartwright, et al. New York 2024-12-12 Denied ballot-access constitutional-interpretation election-law qualifications-clause residential-address twelfth-amendment Does New York's ballot access law violate the Qualifications Clause and Twelfth Amendment by requiring presidential candidates to publish their reside…
24A525 Mark Miller, et al. v. Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-02 Presumed Complete ballot-access constitutional-burden election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties Whether a state's ballot access requirements that impose substantial financial burdens on minor political parties violate the First and Fourteenth Ame…
24A427 Cornel West v. Pennsylvania Department of State Third Circuit 2024-10-30 Presumed Complete administrative-action ballot-access constitutional-rights election-law third-circuit voter-registration Whether a state election official's administrative actions in managing ballot access and voter registration can constitute a violation of federal cons…
24A408 Republican National Committee, et al. v. Faith Genser, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-10-28 Presumed Complete Amici (5) ballot-access candidate-eligibility constitutional-interpretation election-law state-supreme-court voting-rights Whether a state supreme court's interpretation of state election law regarding ballot access and candidate eligibility violates federal constitutional…
24A407 Susan Beals, Commissioner, et al. v. Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-28 Presumed Complete Amici (7) ballot-access constitutional-challenge election-law immigrant-voting voter-registration voting-rights Whether Virginia's election laws governing voter registration and ballot access unconstitutionally burden immigrant and minority voters' fundamental r…
24A405 Robert Kennedy v. Jocelyn Benson, Secretary of State of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2024-10-25 Presumed Complete administrative-law ballot-access constitutional-rights election-law presidential-candidate state-election-procedure Whether a state election official can remove a presidential candidate's name from the ballot after previously certifying the candidate based on allege…
24A399 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, et al. Wisconsin 2024-10-23 Presumed Complete ballot-access candidate-qualification election-law fourteenth-amendment insurrection-clause state-election-commission Whether a state election commission can constitutionally remove a presidential candidate from a primary ballot based on alleged insurrection-related d…
24-342 Shiva Ayyadurai v. New Jersey Democratic State Committee, et al. New Jersey 2024-09-26 Denied Response Waived ballot-access citizenship-clause equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-qualifications Whether states can unilaterally remove a presidential candidate from the ballot based on 'natural born' citizenship requirements without congressional…
24A285 Team Kennedy, et al. v. Henry Berger, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-23 Presumed Complete ballot-access election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment independent-candidate presidential-qualifications Whether a state's ballot residency requirement for independent presidential candidates violates the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of ballot ac…
24A262 Nevada Green Party v. Francisco Aguilar, Secretary of State of Nevada, et al. Nevada 2024-09-13 Presumed Complete ballot-access due-process equal-protection minor-party petition-signature state-election-law Whether the exclusion of a minor political party from a state ballot based on a petition form error caused by state officials' own instructions violat…
24A222 Oscar Stilley v. John Thurston, Secretary of State of Arkansas, et al. Arkansas 2024-08-29 Presumed Complete ballot-access ballot-initiative constitutional-challenge election-law supreme-court-review voter-standing Whether a state supreme court can deny a voter's standing to challenge a ballot initiative without a full evidentiary hearing on the voter's registrat…
24A46 Pennsylvania State Conference of NAACP Branches, et al. v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-16 Presumed Complete ballot-access circuit-split federal-statute mail-ballot materiality-provision voting-rights Whether the Materiality Provision of federal voting rights law prohibits excluding mail ballots due to immaterial paperwork errors beyond voter regist…
23-7710 William Anderson v. L'Oreal Snell, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP ballot-access ballot-access-laws civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-law first-amendment signature-challenge voter-disenfranchisement voting-rights Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court violate Petitioner's Constitutional Rights by affirming the Lower Court's order Removing Petitioner's Name from the…
23-7684 Andrew W. Bell v. Brad Raffensberger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP ballot-access constitutional-rights due-process election-law first-amendment first-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment independent-candidates rooker-feldman-doctrine signature-verification Should-the-Rooker-Feldman-doctrine-apply-to-moot-decisions-by-state-courts
23-960 Independence-Alliance Party of Minnesota v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State Eighth Circuit 2024-03-04 Denied Response Waived anderson-burdick ballot-access first-amendment minor-political-party nominating-petition political-participation strict-scrutiny Whether an unnecessarily confusing oath requirement in a minor political party candidate's nominating petition to gain access to the ballot is subject…
23-924 John Anthony Castro v. Adrian Fontes, Arizona Secretary of State, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response Waived arizona-ballot article-iii article-iii-standing ballot-access campaign-expenses hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion motion-to-amend presidential-candidate standing Does an Arizona ballot-placed Republican Presidential Candidate lack Article III standing if a lower court determines he is not 'genuinely' competing …
23A769 Christine H. Scott v. Florida Florida 2024-02-23 Presumed Complete ballot-access constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech quasi-public-property right-to-petition Whether the First Amendment protects the right to petition for ballot access on quasi-public property when private entities control access in a manner…
23-6816 Wayne Resper v. YesCare Corp., fka Corizon Health, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied IFP ballot-access civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process election-law election-procedures federal-court removal standing state-court voting-rights Whether the Circuit Court for Alleghany County, Maryland should have given the pro se petitioner an opportunity to challenge the removal of his compla…
23-771 Jill L. Stein, et al. v. Federal Election Commission District of Columbia 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived ballot-access federal-election-commission minor-party presidential-primary public-financing ballot-access equal-protection minor-party-candidates presidential-election primary-campaign public-financing Whether 26 U.S.C. § 9032(6) violates the equal-protection
23-719 Donald J. Trump v. Norma Anderson, et al. Colorado 2024-01-04 Judgment Issued Amici (78) 14th-amendment ballot-access constitutional-interpretation disqualification election-law insurrection insurrection-clause oath-of-office presidential-election presidential-eligibility state-election-law Whether the Colorado Supreme Court erred in ordering President Trump excluded from the 2024 presidential primary ballot
23A473 Jill L. Stein, et al. v. Federal Election Commission District of Columbia 2023-11-27 Presumed Complete ballot-access campaign-finance equal-protection minor-party presidential-election public-funding Whether Section 9032(6) of the Presidential Primary Matching Payment Account Act violates the Equal Protection Clause by arbitrarily terminating minor…
23-6084 Joe Stephens v. Alaska Division of Elections Ninth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ballot-access constitutional-rights due-process election-law equal-protection federalism first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech Whether a candidate's right to have their full legal name on the ballot
23-523 Board of Supervisors of San Bernardino County v. Lynna Monell, Clerk, Board of Supervisors of San Bernardino County, et al. California 2023-11-16 Denied Response Waived ballot-access candidate-restrictions civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny equal-protection freedom-of-association political-association term-limits voting-rights Does a term limit that bans incumbents from ever running for reelection merit heightened scrutiny?
23A139 Siddhanth Sharma v. Damon Circosta, Chair, North Carolina State Board of Elections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-16 Presumed Complete ballot-access elections-clause felon-disqualification first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-party-affiliation Whether state ballot access requirements—including voter registration, political party affiliation for a specified period, and felon disqualification—…
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 Did the courts below properly apply the Anderson-Burdick standard?
22-101 Martin Cowen, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived ballot-access congressional-district equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment signature-requirements third-party third-party-candidates Does a State violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments when its ballot-access restrictions on third-party candidates for United States Representativ…
21-7796 Ryan Stephen Ehrenreich v. Shirley N. Weber, California Secretary of State Ninth Circuit 2022-05-06 Denied IFP ballot-access candidate-certification civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-law elections filing-fee filing-fees free-speech notarization write-in-voting Whether the State of California may condition the reporting of the results of write-in voting on the State's 'candidate certification' requirement tha…
21-1120 Chad Thompson, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-02-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived ballot-access civil-rights constitutional-challenge COVID-19-restrictions first-amendment free-speech government-regulation initiative-placement mootness standing Whether ever-changing and ongoing government-issued COVID-19 restrictions moot First Amendment challenges to ballot access restrictions
21-6316 Clayton G. Walker v. Steve Barnett, South Dakota Secretary of State, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied IFP ballot-access candidate-selection constitutional-rights election-law election-process equal-protection freedom-of-association independent-candidates major-parties third-party Should Walker as a Governor Candidate be able to choose from any party to join him in the nomination to be on the ballot just as the rights of Major P…
21-108 Clint A. Krislov, et al. v. Cook County Officers Electoral Board, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied ballot-access civil-rights due-process first-amendment mootness mootness-exception public-interest public-interest-exception signature-requirements Whether federal courts recognize a public interest exception to mootness
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
20-897 Kyle Kopitke v. Karen Brinson Bell, Executive Director, North Carolina State Board of Elections Fourth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived anderson-v-celebrezze ballot-access candidate-signatures constitutional-rights election-law fourth-circuit independent-candidates march-filing-deadline north-carolina petition-requirements Whether the Fourth Circuit decision requiring all independent candidates to file their ballot access qualifying petitions by the date of North Carolin…
20-612 Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State Minnesota 2020-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ballot-access equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties political-party-rights primary-election primary-elections Whether Minnesota's taxpayer-funded, state-administered, and binding presidential nomination primary election statutes are repugnant to the First and …
19-1294 Geoffrey Young v. Amy McGrath Kentucky 2020-05-15 Denied Response Waived ballot-access ballot-challenge civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation democratic-party due-process election-integrity election-law judicial-procedure kentucky-constitution political-parties primary-election standing Whether Kentucky's Judicial Department unlawfully enabled the names of Amy McGrath and Andy Beshear to appear on general election ballots
19-1219 Respect Washington v. Burien Communities for Inclusion, et al. Washington 2020-04-16 Denied Response Waived ballot ballot-access civil-rights election-law first-amendment free-speech initiative initiative-process political-speech referendum voting voting-rights Whether the First Amendment protects the right of citizens to vote on an initiative that meets all time, place and manner requirements for the initiat…
19-1207 Geoffrey M. Young v. Denise G. Clayton, Chief Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals Kentucky 2020-04-10 Denied ballot-access ballot-challenge due-process election-law federalism judicial-review kentucky-supreme-court original-jurisdiction separation-of-powers standing state-constitution state-constitution-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court of Kentucky may nullify Kentucky's ballot challenge statute, Kentucky Revised Statute ('KRS') 118.176, and violate Sections …
19-757 Arizona Libertarian Party, et al. v. Katie Hobbs, Arizona Secretary of State Ninth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) ballot-access ballot-qualified-party candidate-qualification constitutional-threshold election-law independent-voters political-parties primary-election voter-eligibility voter-support Questions presented
19-524 Roque De La Fuente, aka Rocky v. Alex Padilla, California Secretary of State, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived anderson-burdick anderson-burdick-framework ballot-access ballot-clutter constitutional-review election-law independent-candidates presidential-election presidential-elections signature-requirements voter-confusion When evidence is adduced that signature collection requirements to secure ballot access for independent presidential candidates exceed what is necessa…
19-474 Respect Washington v. Global Neighborhood, et al. Washington 2019-10-10 Denied Response Waived agenda-setting ballot ballot-access civil-rights first-amendment free-speech initiative initiative-process injunction sanctuary-city standing voting voting-rights Whether the First Amendment protects citizens' interests in voting on an initiative that has met all time, place and manner requirements for an initia…
18-9826 In Re Ellis Keyes 2019-06-27 Denied IFP ballot-access bar-association bar-exam civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-candidates licensing open-government right-to-work standing state-licensing voting-rights Under what authority is license to practice law or not?
18-1518 Save Tacoma Water v. Port of Tacoma, et al. Washington 2019-06-06 Denied Response Waived ballot-access content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech initiative-power judicial-veto political-speech prior-restraint vagueness Whether the First Amendment prohibits a state court from enjoining a qualified initiative from appearing on the ballot because the court believes that…
18-1362 James Hall v. John H. Merrill, Alabama Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Amici (1) ballot-access capable-of-repetition class-action courts-of-appeals election election-law elections-mootness evading-review judicial-review mootness-doctrine standing Under what circumstances can a candidate continue to challenge a ballot-access rule after the election over which he originally sued has passed?
18-8335 Lamar C. Chapman, III v. Barack Hussein Obama District of Columbia 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ballot-access civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-districts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech religious-freedom signature-requirements standing takings voting-rights Whether the lower courts erred in violating Appellant's right to the free exercise of religion