Gelineau v. Johnson

OPINION AND ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF

PAUL L. MALONEY, Chief Judge.

This case involves the issue of whether Gary E. Johnson should be listed on Michigan’s ballots as the Libertarian Party’s nominee for President. Mr. Johnson, a citizen of Texas, is, for lack of a better term, the Party’s backup candidate. Its original nominee, a former governor of New Mexico also named Gary Johnson, has been barred from the ballot under Michigan’s “sore loser” law, Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.695. Plaintiffs — the Libertarian Party of Michigan, Mr. Johnson himself, and William Gelineau, a Michigan…