On May 4, Kevin W. Goering died unexpectedly at the age of 64. He was the attorney for the Working Families Party in the ballot access cases that challenge the new definition of “political party”, and the new number of signatures for statewide candidates of 45,000. The Working Families, SAM, Libertarian and Green Parties are all suing over those 2020 laws.

Due to Mr. Goering’s death, the Working Families Party case is on pause for 90 days, and the other two cases are paused for at least 30 days. Goering had been hospitalized late in April 2021. He was a specialist in First Amendment cases.