On August 21, Andy Shugart appealed his Alabama ballot access case to the Eleventh Circuit. The case involves the number of signatures needed for an independent candidate for U.S. House. Alabama required more signatures for an independent candidate for U.S. House to get on the ballot in 2008 than it did for an independent presidential candidate. The U.S. Supreme Court has twice said that states cannot require a candidate running for office in just part of a state to get more signatures than a statewide candidate needs. However, the U.S. District Court had upheld the Alabama law anyway.