On May 16, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a lawsuit over whether the amount of attorneys’ fees awarded to Ralph Nader’s ballot access attorneys in Arizona had been fair. In 2008 the 9th circuit had struck down Arizona’s June petition deadline for independent presidential candidates, and had also struck down Arizona’s ban on out-of-state circulators. Under federal law, when a voting rights case (or other type of civil rights case) is won by plaintiffs against a state government, the state government must pay attorneys’ fees. The attorneys who represented Ralph Nader had felt that the lower courts had not given them enough fees, and had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene. But the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene. The case was Nader v Bennett, 10-1186.