Here is the California Secretary of State’s calendar for various filing deadlines for the March 2020 presidential primary. The calendar says the Secretary of State will announce by December 6 which presidential candidates are on various presidential primary ballots.

Therefore, there is very little time left for appellate courts to decide the validity of the California tax returns-ballot law. Notwithstanding the time crunch, though, the state has still not filed a notice of appeal in Trump v Padilla, the case over whether presidential primary candidates must show their tax returns. The U.S. District Court enjoined the law. The Secretary of State said he would appeal, but so far he has not, which seems to indicate that he won’t appeal. But no general news source has mentioned his failure to appeal, so far.

Florida’s Attorney General has asked the Florida Supreme Court to invalidate the circulating initiative that sets up a top-two system for state and local partisan office. See this story.

On October 4, the plaintiffs who are fighting Montana’s ban on out-of-state circulators for initiatives filed this 31-page brief in U.S. District Court. The case is Pierce v Stapleton, 6:18cv-63. The plaintiffs also challenge the Montana law banning paying circulators on a per-signature basis.