On February 23, this rebuttal brief was filed in the 7th circuit in Stone v Board of Election Commissioners for the City of Chicago, no. 11-1085. This is the lawsuit that challenges the requirement that candidates running for citywide non-partisan office in Chicago need 12,500 valid signatures.
IF the requirement is really EQUAL for all candidates, then perhaps the court may make the connection with —
Separate is NOT equal.
Brown v. Bd of Ed 1954