A U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York, will hold oral argument in Credico v New York State Board of Elections, 10-cv-4555, on October 13 at 10 a.m. This is the case that challenges New York state policy that lets a candidate appear twice on the November ballot if he or she is the nominee of a qualified party and an unqualified party, or the nominee of two qualified parties; but if the candidate is the nominee of two unqualified parties, the candidate’s name can only appear once on the ballot.

The plaintiff, Randy Credico, had been the nominee for U.S. Senate in 2010 of both the Libertarian Party and the Anti-Prohibition Party, but the state forced him to choose one of those lines, instead of printing his name twice, once under each label.