The Ninth Circuit will hear Arizona Green Party v Reagan, 14-15976, on Wednesday, May 11, at 9 a.m., in San Francisco. This is the case that challenges Arizona’s February deadline for petitions to establish a political party. The Arizona primary is in August. The case arose around the 2014 election, when the Green Party submitted all its signatures to be a qualified party a few weeks late, because they couldn’t get the job done by the deadline. Even though the party brought all its completed petition sheets into court, to show the judge that they had done the job, U.S. District Court Judge Neil Wake said the party hadn’t presented any evidence that the February petition deadline is burdensome.

Judge Wake did say that the party could use those petitions to qualify for 2016, so the effort wasn’t entirely wasted. The Green Party is on the ballot in Arizona now.