candidate-selection

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-528 Phil Lyman v. Spencer J. Cox, Governor of Utah, et al. Utah 2024-11-12 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) associational-rights candidate-selection convention-process first-amendment political-party-rights primary-election Did the Utah Supreme Court improperly mandate a convention-nominated candidate to participate in a direct primary after a losing candidate collected s…
21-6316 Clayton G. Walker v. Steve Barnett, South Dakota Secretary of State, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied IFP ballot-access candidate-selection constitutional-rights election-law election-process equal-protection freedom-of-association independent-candidates major-parties third-party Should Walker as a Governor Candidate be able to choose from any party to join him in the nomination to be on the ballot just as the rights of Major P…
18-450 Utah Republican Party v. Spencer J. Cox, Lieutenant Governor of Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) candidate-selection expressive-association first-amendment political-parties political-party standard-bearer state-regulation viewpoint-discrimination Does the First Amendment permit a government to compel a political party to use a state-preferred process for selecting a party's standard-bearers for…
24A529 Phil Lyman v. Spencer J. Cox, Governor of Utah, et al. Utah Presumed Complete candidate-selection convention-nomination political-party primary-election right-of-association state-interference Whether a state can constitutionally mandate a direct primary election that overrides a political party's convention-based candidate nomination proces…