On September 21, Texas filed this brief in Collier v Howden, w.d., 1:26cv-1574. This is the lawsuit in which Michael Collier, an independent candidate for Lieutenant Governor, sued to overturn the law that said he needed 81,030 valid signatures to be collected in only 30 days. The Texas brief claims the lawsuit is moot. The brief doesn’t even mention the U.S. Supreme Court decision Moore v Ogilvie, which said that constitutional ballot access cases are not moot just because the election is over. Nor does the brief mention Kucinich v Texas Democratic Party, a 2009 decision of the Fifth Circuit which held that a Texas ballot access case brought by a candidate who had been denied a spot on a presidential primary ballot was not moot just because the primary was over.