# Anderson v. Celebrezze **Status: stub — expand.** **460 U.S. 780 (1983).** Argued 6 December 1982, decided 19 April 1983. John Anderson's independent presidential campaign challenged Ohio's March filing deadline; the Court held it an unconstitutional burden on the voting and associational rights of his supporters. The lasting product is the **Anderson inquiry**: a court weighs the character and magnitude of the asserted injury to First and Fourteenth Amendment rights against the precise interests the state puts forward, and asks whether those interests make the burden necessary. [[Burdick v. Takushi]] later converted this into a sliding scale, and the pair is now cited as one framework — Anderson-Burdick — governing nearly every ballot-access and election-administration challenge. It is stage 6 of [[How a Candidate Gets on the Ballot]]. Early filing deadlines remain the single most frequently struck feature in ballot-access law, and this is the case that made them vulnerable.