Legal Opinion
Hall v. Merrill
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided September 30, 2016No. CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:13cv663-MHT (WO)PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Myron H. Thompson, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Plaintiffs James Hall and N.C. “Clint” Moser, Jr. planned to run in the December 2013 special election to fill the vacant United States House of Representatives seat in Alabama’s First Congressional District. However, neither timely submitted a petition with the number of signatures required under state law, and, as a result, neither appeared on the ballot.
Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Hall and Moser filed this case against Alabama’s Secretary of State, raising First and Fourteenth Amendment challenges to the constitutionality of Alabama’s…
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