United States Eleventh Circuit

In case involving former independent political candidates making a constitutional challenge to Alabama's ballot access restrictions, summary judgment for state defendants is affirmed over claim that the three-percent of qualified electors signature requirement and primary election date filing deadline, independently and in combination, infringe upon their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/29/2007
• Published 06/29/2007

Judges

• HULL, Circuit Judge:, Before HULL and MARCUS, Circuit Judges, and BARZILAY, Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• T. Allen French, Office of Robert B. French, Jr., P.C., Fort Payne, AL, Arlene M. Richardson, Richardson Legal Ctr., LLC, Haynesville, AL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kevin Christopher Newsom, James W. Davis, John J. Park, Jr., Montgomery, AL, for Defendants-Appellees.