On March 10, U.S. District Court Judge Andrea Wood postponed the status conference in Libertarian Party of Illinois v Illinois State Board of Elections from March 11 to March 25.  She had already said that she would issue an opinion before the next status conference.  Therefore, the fact that she has moved the status conference two weeks into the future shows that the decision won’t be out today or tomorrow, but surely it will be out before March 25.

The issue is the unique Illinois law that says a newly-qualifying party must run a full slate of candidates.  No other state has ever had such a requirement, and Illinois does not require already-established parties to run a full slate.  The Libertarian case was filed in 2012 and has never had a declaratory decision, although when this case was assigned to a different judge, that earlier judge had enjoined the law, saying it was probably unconstitutional.