On November 28, the New York State Court of Appeals agreed to hear Conroy v State Committee of the Independence Party. This is the internal dispute between the state Independence Party and the New York city branches of that party.

The same Court had agreed to hear a similar case, Master (Chair of the Working Families Party) v Pohanka, on October 18, 2007.

Both cases are over whether a state party can have bylaws that take control over local nominations away from the local officers of the party, and lodge that control in the hands of the state officers. There have been surprisingly few court decisions around the nation over this issue, during the last 100 years.