Ravalli County Republican Central Committee v. McCulloch

ORDER

Brian Morris, United States District Court Judge

This order addresses the following motions filed' by the parties: Plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment (Doc. 88); the State’s motion. for summary judgment (Doc. 91); and Plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction. (Doc. 70.)

I. BACKGROUND

Montana voters in 1912 approved an initiative that requires the political parties to choose their nominee through an open primary. The American Year Book 60-61 (Franci G. Wickware ed., 1913). This system has governed Montana’s primary elections, with only slight modifications, for the last century.…