On September 11, the SAM Party, a ballot-qualified party in New York, asked the Second Circuit to expedite its lawsuit against the new definition of a qualified political party in New York. Here is the brief, which does not a great deal about the merits, but instead focuses on why the case should be expedited.

Because the party has no presidential candidate this year, it is obvious that it will go off the ballot in November 2020 unless it wins judicial relief. The new law, passed and signed April 3, 2020, requires a qualified party to poll the higher of 130,000 votes for president, or 2% of the total presidential vote. Under the old law, there was no vote test for party retention in presidential years.