On July 11, a U.S. District Court in Virginia enjoined the state law that tells delegates to major party presidential conventions that they must vote for the candidate who won the Virginia presidential primary for that party. However, the decision will have little practical effect. The national party is still free to have its own rules binding delegates. The case had been filed by Beau Correll, a Republican delegate who supports U.S. Senator Ted Cruz for the Republican nomination.

The case is Correll v Herring, e.d., 3:16cv-467. The decision is 65 pages long.

On July 8, Connecticut State Senator Edwin Gomes won a lawsuit in state court in Bridgeport. The court ordered that he be placed on the Democratic primary ballot, for the August 9 primary. Under Connecticut law, anyone who has at least 15% of the delegates at a party endorsement meeting is entitled to run in the primary. Gomes received that level of support at a recent Democratic Party meeting, but the officials who ran the meeting failed to notify the Secretary of State that Gomes had that much support.

Gomes won his last election to the Connecticut Senate as the nominee of the Working Families Party, but he is a registered Democrat and wanted the 2016 Democratic nomination.