Plaintiffs challenge the Joint Monitor Council's determination that §15.5.a(1) applies to the certified corridor merger petition and the certified whole-Territory statehood petition. The filing asserts that a petition covering the whole of a Territory does not constitute a "different defined portion" of that Territory within the meaning of §15.5.a(1), since the whole-Territory claim does not merely overlap the corridor claim but entirely encompasses it. Plaintiffs assert this is a challenge to the Joint Monitor Council's certification function as a constitutionally independent institution, bringing it within the Court's original jurisdiction under §4.5(5).

This filing was made the same day as the Territory Convention's first session. Plaintiffs' filing states that the Convention's opening, and its active exercise of authority in place of the referendum plaintiffs had already qualified for, establishes the concrete injury required under §4.5(4).

A declaration that §15.5.a(1) was not properly triggered; in the alternative, an order restoring the corridor referendum to the calendar.

Filed to the NRS as required. The Court has not yet acted on the filing.

End of record.