U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila, an Obama appointee, will hear Keller v Brown on August 17 in San Jose at 9 a.m. Keller v Brown challenges the California law that tells presidential electors that when the electoral college meets in December, they must vote for the candidate who got the most popular votes in November.
The Eighth Circuit will hold an oral argument in Abdurrahman v Dayton sometime this summer, likely June or July. The case challenges the Minnesota law that says if a presidential elector fails to vote for the candidate who got the most popular votes in Minnesota (aka a “faithless elector“), that elector is deemed to have resigned and will be replaced by the other presidential electors who are present at the meeting. The issue for the Eighth Circuit is whether the U.S. District Court erred when it upheld the law without allowing for evidence or a trial.
The Eighth Circuit has already schedule oral arguments for June, and it doesn’t schedule arguments in July or August. It will meet in St. Louis in September and St. Paul in October. It could be put on the September calendar if they want to push it earlier, or, I think a little more likely, it could be put on the October calendar to reduce attorney travel. But that’s just a guess.