Denied: Kurita Appeal Continues

State Sen. Tim Barnes's motion to dismiss an appeal filed by former state Sen. Rosalind Kurita seeking a reversal of the court's decision to uphold the decision of the state Democratic Party to strip her of the nomination for state Senate last November has been denied.

Barnes sought to dismiss the appeal arguing that "if the Court ever had jurisdiction over the political questions at issue in this case, the passage of time and intervening events have divested it of such jurisdiction."