United States Fourth Circuit

Order dismissing 11th Senatorial District Republican Committee's constitutional challenge to Virginia's open primary law for lack of justiciability is reversed where the district court erred in concluding the plaintiffs lack standing and the case is not ripe.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/23/2006
• Decided 08/30/2006
• Published 08/30/2006

Judges

• Before WILKINS, Chief Judge, DUNCAN, Circuit Judge, and JOSEPH R. GOODWIN, United States District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Kenneth Thomas Cuccinelli, II, Cuccinelli & Day, P.L.L.C., Fairfax, Virginia, for Appellants.  James Christian Stuchell, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Paul A. Prados, Cuccinelli & Day, P.L.L.C., Fairfax, Virginia;  Patrick M. McSweeney, McSweeney & Crump, P.C., Richmond, Virginia, for Appellants.  Robert F. McDonnell, Attorney General of Virginia, Francis S. Ferguson, Deputy Attorney General, Maureen Riley Matsen, Deputy Attorney General, Peter R. Messitt, Senior Assistant Attorney General, James W. Hopper, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellees.