Elisa Knowles Collins v. Leslie Ricard Chambers, Hon. Marcus L. Hunter, and Nancy Landry in Her Capacity as the…

Summary

The court reversed the lower courts and sustained the challenge to Judge Hunter's candidacy because the challenger established a prima facie showing that he had not filed tax returns for three of the preceding five years, and Hunter failed to rebut that showing with sufficient evidence. The court held that evidence of unidentified documents transmitted through tax software did not establish that completed tax returns had actually been transmitted. Judge Hunter was declared ineligible and disqualified from the ballot.