Ernest v. Gabu III (or is it IV, I've lost count)

[TomC]

Two of us are in agreement on an opinion; I'll wait a little for the third Justice to weigh in. For the sake of recordkeeping, this is really just Ernest v Gabu II, right?

[TomC]

Two of us are in agreement on an opinion; I'll wait a little for the third Justice to weigh in. For the sake of recordkeeping, this is really just Ernest v Gabu II, right?

It should be "Ernest v. Department of Forum Affairs," like the other election-related cases.

I thought the usual form for these sorts of cases is to use the name of the officer in charge of the department as defendant.

In the United States, yes. In Atlasia, however, we've had Jfern v. DoFA, Independent Liberal Party v. DoFA, Peter Bell v. DoFA, and True Democrat v. DoFA. For the sake of consistency, at least, we should call this Ernest v. DoFA.

Well, early on cases dealing with the Department have "Fritz" listed instead of DoFA, but generally I agree- since the Department is empowered to certify elections.