On February 17, the Elmore County, Alabama Circuit Court ruled that Andre Harrison may be on the November 2016 ballot as an independent candidate for County School Superintendent, if he has enough valid signatures. Harrison is the incumbent and had been elected in 2012 as a Republican. But he was kept off the March 2016 Republican primary ballot on a technicality.

Therefore, he petitioned to be an independent candidate, but his opponent claimed that Harrison is a “sore loser”, because he had filed for the Republican primary. But the court ruled that a “sore loser” is someone who actually appeared on a primary ballot and was defeated in that primary. The case is Enslen v Harrison, cv-2016-9. See this article, which has a copy of the opinion.