The Ninth Circuit will hear Montana Green Party v Stapleton, 20-35340, on May 6, Wednesday, in Portland, Oregon. This case challenges the unequal distribution requirement for petitions to recognize a new party. The law requires signatures from at least one-third of the state house districts. Montana has 100 state house districts, so signatures must be gathered from at least 34 counties. The problem is that even though the state house districts are approximately equal in population, the law requires widely differing numbers of signatures from the various districts. In some districts as few as 55 signatures are required; in others, 150 signatures. This seems to violate the U.S. Supreme Court decision Moore v Ogilvie, a 1969 case from Illinois that said such laws give more power to the voters of some areas than other areas, and therefore violate the one person, one vote principle.