Eturriaga v. Valdez

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• concluding that a definite time period for commencement of an action, where created by the same statute creating a right to contest an election, “is a limitation on the substantive right the legislature has created”
• “[T]he Election Code has no remedy in a situation such as this, where a primary election contest has not been resolved before the voting in the general election.”
• \It is not the province of this Court to invalidate substantive policy choices made by the legislature.\
• “It is not the province of this Court to invalidate substantive policy choices made by the legislature.”
• mootness doctrine applied where general election had been held and contestants did not avail themselves of expedited procedures or seek extraordinary relief from appellate court
• mootness doctrine applied where general election had been held and contestants did not avail themselves of expedited procedures or seek extraordinary relief from appellate court

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