192503P.pdf   06/18/2020  Libertarian Party of Arkansas  v.  John Thurston
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-2503
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Erickson and Kobes, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Election Law. The district court did not err in finding 
   plaintiffs were likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that 
   Arkansas's recent amendments to the requirements for new political parties 
   to appear on the next general-elections ballot on a whole-ballot basis 
   were unconstitutional; assuming a compelling state interest exists, and 
   taking into account the general boundaries established by Supreme Court 
   and Eighth Circuit decisions, a regime containing substantial signature 
   requirements, with a limited rolling window for obtaining signatures and a 
   deadline 425 days removed from the date of the general election was not 
   narrowly tailored to a generalized interest in regulating the integrity of 
   elections; plaintiffs' showing of an actual burdensomeness of the scheme 
   was sufficient to support the court's finding; nor did the district court 
   err in applying the remainder of the Dataphase factors for granting 
   injunctive relief; with respect to the relief ordered, the court took a 
   conservative approach to the problem and its order was not an abuse of its 
   discretion.