On January 27, U.S. District Court Judge Janet C. Hall enjoined Connecticut’s ban on out-of-state circulators. Libertarian Party of Connecticut v Merrill, 15-cv-1851. The 17-page opinion says “the Party is substantially likely to succeed on the merits of a facial challenge to the statutues at issue”, so even though a final decision on constitutionality has not been issued yet, in the meantime anyone from outside Connecticut may work, and the signatures cannot be invalidated just because the circulator is not a Connecticut resident.

The ACLU handled this case. UPDATE: here is a news story.

According to this story, many challenges to mainstream major party presidential candidates will not be resolved by the time Illinois must print ballots for the primary.

Illinois could save itself this headache if it abolished mandatory primary petitions, which a majority of states have done.

U.S. District Court Judge James M. Moody, Jr., will hear Libertarian Party of Arkansas v Martin, 4:15cv-635, on Friday, February 19, at 9:30 pm in Little Rock. This is the case against the new state law that says qualified minor parties must choose all their nominees more than a year before the election.