On October 18, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, removed the two Democratic Party nominees for Justice of the Supreme Court, 13th district, from the ballot. The 13th district encompasses Staten Island. Voters are electing two members. See this story. One of the two Democratic nominees, Orlando Marrazzo is still on the ballot as the Reform Party nominee. The Working Families Party did not make any nominations in this district.

On October 19, the Appellate Division restored the four Republican nominees for Supreme Court Justice, 5th district, in the Syracuse area. The lower court had removed them because the law says that the person who convenes the nominating convention cannot be the same person as the person who chairs the nominating meeting.

The Ninth Circuit has proposed hearing Libertarian Party of Arizona v Reagan, 17-16491, on February 8, 2019, if that date is acceptable to the attorneys. This is the case that challenges the 2017 law that makes it extremely difficult for members of small qualified parties to get on their own party’s primary ballot, if that party has been continuously ballot-qualified for more than just the last election or last two elections. The restrictive law does not apply to small qualified parties that have had to attain their qualified status in the last few years. That is why the new restriction doesn’t apply to the Green Party, and that is why the Green Party has nominees on the Arizona ballot this year, but the Libertarian Party doesn’t, even though the Libertarian Party has substantially more members in Arizona than the Green Party does.