Two individuals who live in Chicago have filed challenges to the Illinois Democratic presidential primary petitions of Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, and Rocky De La Fuente. The two challengers are Rickey Hendon and Elaine Shaw. Hendon was a Democratic State Senator in the recent past, and before that he was a Chicago Alderman.
The National Law Journal has this story about the most recent activity in Gary Johnson v Commission on Presidential Debates. This is the lawsuit concerning general election presidential debates that Gary Johnson and Jill Stein filed in September 2015, which depends on antitrust law.
That case should not be confused with the case filed by Level the Playing Field, which also concerns the general election presidential debates but which depends on campaign finance law.
On January 13, the U.S. Supreme Court heard Puerto Rico v Valle, 15-108. The case involves criminal law, but it requires the Court to decide if the government of Puerto Rico is sovereign or whether it is subservient to the United States government. According to this story, a majority of justices appear to be leaning in the direction that Puerto Rico is not sovereign. The story says Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor are adamantly opposed to that idea, however.
UPDATE: here is a very detailed story about the oral argument from Scotusblog.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the largest newspaper in the state, has this story about the Libertarian Party lawsuit against the law that says it must have chosen all its nominees for 2016 at a state convention no later than November 5, 2015.
The story says there will be a trial starting February 13, but that is inaccurate. The trial in this case is set for more than a year from now (the week starting February 13, 2017, not 2016). But there is a status conference on February 10, 2016, and the Libertarian Party will soon ask for injunctive relief so that any relief it obtains will be useful for the 2016 election.
Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley filed a declaration of write-in candidacy for the Ohio presidential primary, but it arrived too late, according to this story. He filed as a write-in because earlier his petition to be on the ballot was ruled insufficient.
