In July 2019, the Independent Voters Project filed a lawsuit in California state court, arguing that the State Constitution requires the state to print presidential primary ballots that list all the presidential candidates running in any party’s presidential primary ballot. Last year the San Bernardino County Superior Court refused to issue an injunction to force the state to do that. It also set a conference to discuss how the trial on that issue will be handled.

At the trial-setting conference, the attorney for the Independent Voters Project did not make an appearance. It is possible the court will levy a sanction; that will be discussed on May 21, 2020. The case is Boydston v Padilla, civ-ds-1921480.