On August 6, a state trial court in Raleigh, North Carolina, set a hearing date for Monday, August 13, in the lawsuits over whether the state can prevent two judicial candidates from having their party label on the ballot. The judge also denied the state’s motion to dismiss the case. See this story.

One of the cases is on behalf of a judicial candidate for local judicial office, Rebecca Edwards. Her case is Edwards v North Carolina Bipartisan State Board of Elections, Wake County, 18cvs-9748. UPDATE: The State Supreme Court candidate who is fighting for his own party label, Chris Anglin, has the transcript of the federal case in which the Democratic Party unsuccessfully sued to stop the existing law on party labels. See it here.

On August 6, Rocky De La Fuente submitted his reply brief to the Ninth Circuit in De La Fuente v Padilla, 17-56668. This is the lawsuit that challenges the California law that required him to submit 178,039 valid signatures in 2016, to be on the ballot. Here is brief.

This article says that the South Carolina Election Commission’s spokesperson Chris Whitmire believes there is no likelihood that the Election Commission will remove James Smith, the Democratic nominee for Governor, from the November ballot.

First, the Libertarian Party state convention didn’t reject him; only the party state committee rejected him. Second, the Libertarian Party doesn’t have its own nominee for Governor.

So, although South Carolina law continues to say that someone who seeks the nomination of two parties, yet fails to capture both nominations, can’t be any party’s nominee, a little bit of wiggle room has now been introduced into the system. Thanks to Dave Gillespie for the link.