Professor Chia-Chi Teng, who wanted to run for U.S. House in the November 2017 special election in Utah’s Third District, was barred from the Republican primary ballot because he didn’t file in-person. He was temporarily teaching in China. He sued to overturn the law that requires filing in person (except for government employees and members of the military), but lost in the lower state court. On June 5 he said he will not appeal to the Utah Supreme Court.
However, state representative Craig Hall says he will introduce a bill next year to delete the requirement that candidates must file in-person. See this story.
Interesting how the Red-Blue legislators create political castes with certain privileges and then back-fill when the privilege becomes a liability for one of their caste.