Virginia does not let anyone circulate a petition for district office, if the circulator doesn’t live in that district.  On July 13, an independent congressional candidate in the 7th district, Herb Lux, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Richmond to overturn that restriction.  The case is Lux v Rodrigues, 3:10-cv-00482.  It was assigned to Judge Robert E. Payne, a Bush Sr. appointee.

The Libertarian Party has a similar case pending in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, which was filed June 3, 2010.

Similar lawsuits have won in the 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, 9th, and 10th circuits.  Virginia is the only state in the 4th circuit which has residency requirements for petition circulators.