According to this story, on September 12 an Indiana lower state court ruled that unopposed candidates in partisan elections in the city of Richmond should be on the November 2011 ballot, even if they have no opponents. The new state law, passed this year, says if someone has no opponents, not even a declared write-in, that office should be removed entirely from the November ballot. The lawsuit had been filed by the Democratic and Republican Parties and a few of their nominees, and some voters. According to the story, the judge did not hold the new law unconstitutional, but construed it not to apply to the Richmond city election of 2011. Election officials have not yet decided whether to appeal.