Doralee Chandler, Candidate for Circuit Judge, District 20, Division — Hart, J., Concurring in Part and Dissenting…

Summary

Justice Hart would not reach the constitutional challenge to Rule VII(C) because Foster had already been held eligible to run for judicial office, making the constitutional issue unnecessary. She further reasoned that Foster's payment of the annual fee and penalty rendered the challenge moot and that neither recognized exception to mootness applied. Hart would remand for entry of a decree recognizing that the grounds for the declaratory judgment and injunction were moot. Justice Corbin, dissenting, would have found Foster ineligible and would have reversed the constitutional ruling and vacated the injunction.