U.S. District Court Judge Mark Walker will hold a trial in Jacobson v Detzler, n.d., 4:18cv-262, on July 15, Monday, at 8:15 a.m. This is the case over the Florida law that determines the order of candidates on general election ballots. The law says the party that won the last gubernatorial election enjoys the top spot on the ballot for all its nominees. Republicans have won every Florida gubernatorial election starting in 1998, but in each of the last three elections, the margin was by less than 1%. The national Democratic Party brought this lawsuit last year.

The trial would have been on July 1, but the intervenors from the national Republican Party had a scheduling conflict. They are the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Republican Governor’s Association.

The final briefs on each side are due May 7.