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163794P.pdf   11/30/2017  Libertarian Party of Arkansas  v.  Mark Martin
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  16-3794
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Melloy and Gruender, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Voting. Action claiming Arkansas's ballot access statutory 
   scheme violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments was rendered moot by 
   the passage of an amending statute which permits new political parties to 
   hold their nominating conventions and submit their certificates of 
   nomination by noon on the day of the major parties' primary election. 
   Remanded with directions to dismiss the complaint. The district court's 
   award of attorneys' fees and costs to the plaintiff is affirmed.