On December 15, James Hall filed this supplemental brief in Hall v Bennett, now pending in U.S. District Court in the middle district of Alabama. The issue is whether independent and minor party congressional candidates in special elections can be forced to submit the same number of signatures as are required in regular elections. The basis for the lawsuit is that in normal elections, candidates have unlimited time to collect the signatures, whereas the time is severely compressed in special elections. This supplemental filing documents that special elections are always called on short notice in Alabama.

The oral argument was November 13, 2014, and Judge Myron Thompson seemed to be curious about the normal time pattern, so Hall did the research and presented it in the supplemental brief.