The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to hear Meadors v Erie County Board of Elections, 24-684, on Thursday, May 15. This will be the third time the Court has considered whether to hear this case. The case arose as a challenge to the May independent petition deadline. But the Second Circuit said the case was moot because the election was over, so now it has become more fundamentally about whether constitutional ballot access cases are moot just because the election is over. In 1969 the U.S. Supreme Court said such cases are not moot.