There are two lawsuits pending over whether California should grant ballot access relief to presidential candidates who want to petition onto the ballot. They are in different U.S. District Courts, one in San Francisco, one in Los Angeles. Judges in both cases have asked the state to respond by July 10, Friday.

The case in Los Angeles, filed by Socialist Equality presidential candidate Joseph Kishore, will be heard on July 20. The case in San Francisco, filed by Constitution Party nominee Don Blankenship, doesn’t have a court date set yet.

The case in Los Angeles is Kishore v Newsom, 2:20cv-5859. The case in San Francisco is Blankenship v Newsom, 3:20cv-4479.