The Alabama Supreme Court held that a party nominee does not exercise public office and cannot be challenged through quo warranto before the general election.
The Wyoming Supreme Court held that primary elections receive state constitutional protection but upheld the 96-day party-affiliation deadline under a balancing approach.
A divided Ninth Circuit panel affirmed dismissal of the facial and as-applied challenges. Applying exacting scrutiny, the majority found a substantial relationship between source disclosure and Arizona’s important interest in giving voters accurate information about major campaign-media spending.
The Second Department held that 2019 legislation ended the functus-officio rule for outgoing county committees, but Brooklyn Democratic Party rules still barred defeated state committee members from voting on major amendments.
The California Supreme Court ordered Riverside County’s sheriff to return roughly 650,000 voted ballots because state law requires them to remain in election officials’ custody.
The California Supreme Court held that the Attorney General may issue binding, lawful directions to a county sheriff concerning a particular criminal investigation.
The Sixth District upheld Santa Clara County’s special sales-tax election, construing Proposition 218’s emergency exception according to its ordinary broad meaning.
The Second Department held that an independent nominating petition’s omission of the independent body’s name was a fatal Election Law content defect, not a minor curable error.
The Second Department dismissed a candidate’s ballot-validation proceeding because she waited months after learning that the Suffolk County Board of Elections had invalidated her petition.
The Supreme Court kept a new ballot-mail rule blocked for the 2026 elections, emphasizing the government’s weak stay showing and implementation burdens.
The Second Department held that a candidate waived a jurisdictional objection to an Election Law petition’s verification by failing to give prompt notice under CPLR 3022.
The Supreme Court stayed an injunction against a federal election executive order while emphasizing that future implementation may still be challenged.
The Commonwealth Court held that a lieutenant-governor candidate cannot remain on Pennsylvania’s ballot after the paired gubernatorial candidate is removed.
The Third Department held that filing an election validation case is insufficient unless every necessary party is served within the statutory period, which an order to show cause cannot extend.
California may require presidential write-in candidates to file a complete slate of elector declarations before votes cast for them will be counted.
California may require presidential write-in candidates to file a complete slate of elector declarations before votes cast for them will be counted.
A California Court of Appeal held that school bond ballot questions must express property-tax rates per $100,000 of assessed value, matching the format required in voter information materials.
Case ActBlue LLC; ActBlue Civics, Inc.; ATS, Inc.; and ActBlue Charities, Inc. v. Warren Kenneth Paxton, Jr., in his official
Appellate Division addresses judicial review of Public Campaign Finance Board determination denying matching funds eligibility to gubernatorial candidates under New York’s reformed public financing program.
The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld Act 15 of the 2026 Regular Session, which abolished the office of clerk of criminal district court for Orleans Parish and consolidated it with the civil clerk’s office, holding the Legislature’s plenary authority under La. Const. Art. V, § 32 is unconstrained in scope and timing.
First District holds that an Oakland voter initiative funding the Oakland Zoo violated the California Constitution by naming a private operator, but the offending references can be severed and the measure passed with the required simple majority.