Facts relating to the legal wrangling over the Texas Green Party's ballot access effort in chronological order:

During the specified period of March 10 through May 23, signatures were collected by petitioners; some petition signature gatherers were paid by Free & Equal, a petition-gathering company, and funded by a non-profit, 501(c)(4) corporation. The Green Party of Texas received no money from a corporate source. Without exception, no petition signers were paid for signing the petition.

On May 24, petitions bearing over 90,000 signatures were turned in to the Texas Secretary of State's office to supplement lists of precinct convention attendees. At that time, the Green Party was not aware that donations for signature collection were given through an incorporated entity.

On June 9, the Secretary of State certified that the Green Party had satisfied requirements to be on the ballot by virtue of turning in lists of precinct convention attendees and supplemental petition signatures.

On June 10, the Texas Democratic Party obtained a temporary restraining order (TRO) to keep the Green Party State Chair from certifying statewide nominees with the Secretary of State. (The TRO was voluntarily signed by the Green Party without benefit of legal counsel.)

On June 12, as specified by state law, elections for nominees of the Green Party were held at the state convention. Four statewide nominees were elected:

    Deb Shafto - Governor
    Herb Gonzales, Jr - Lt Governor
    Art Browning - Railroad Commissioner
    Ed Lindsay - Comptroller of Public Accounts

On June 22, Judge John Dietz donated $7500 to the Travis County Democratic Party.

On June 24, Judge John Dietz ruled in favor of the Texas Democratic Party and upheld the injunction against certifying nominees at a hearing in Travis County 353rd District Courts.

On June 28, the Texas Green Party and statewide nominees filed a petition for writ of mandamus with the Texas Supreme Court in order to uphold the rights of duly elected nominees to appear on the ballot.

On July 2, the Supreme Court of Texas stayed the injunction of Judge Dietz. With the injunction removed, the Green Party certified its four statewide nominees with the Texas Secretary of State.

The full facts of the, as yet unserved, lawsuit Texas Democratic Party et al. vs Texas Green Party et al. are scheduled to be litigated in a January 17, 2011, trial.