Albert-Sheridan v. Spitzer CA4/3
Approximately 540,000 votes were cast in the June 2018 primary election for the Office of District Attorney in Orange County. The four candidates received the following shares of the vote: (1) Tony Rackauckas, 38.5 percent; (2) Todd Spitzer, 35.2 percent; (3) Brett Murdock, 22.4 percent; and (4) Lenore Albert-Sheridan, 3.8 percent. The voters are scheduled to choose between Rackauckas and Spitzer in a November 2018 runoff election.
Albert contests the further participation of Spitzer and Murdock (as Spitzer’s potential replacement) in the election. As grounds for disqualifying Spitzer and Murdock, Albert claims they each made false statements about her during their campaigns and thereby caused her defeat. The trial court declined to grant the requested relief, concluding that no false statements were made about Albert and that any statements made were not a major contributing cause in Albert’s defeat. We affirm the judgment.
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