On August 15, a U.S. District Court in Ohio conducted a hearing by telephone in the Socialist Party’s ballot access case. The case is called Moore v Brunner. The first half of this case, back in June, had resulted in an injunction letting out-of-staters circulate independent petitions in Ohio. Then the complaint had been amended, to ask that the Socialist Party be recognized as a party in Ohio, since the Ohio law on how a party is recognized is void. The case was then transferred to a different judge (i.e., the same judge who had put the Libertarian Party on the ballot in July). A decision is expected early next week. If the Socialist Party gets on the ballot in Ohio, it will be the first time the word “Socialist” has appeared on an Ohio ballot since 1972, when the Socialist Labor Party last appeared on the Ohio ballot.