In re lawsuit: Under the NC rules of civil procedure, after filing the complaint and receiving the summons, Robinson has 60 days in which to serve the complaint on the named defendants. So service can be delayed until after the election. Any bets on whether Robinson's lawyers have a long and candid talk with him about how prior to getting to trial, there will be a discovery period and part of that discovery will undoubtedly be a deposition of Robinson taken under oath. And while the whole "under oath" thing has a somewhat elastic quality among Republicans, it has a strictly inelastic quality among trial judges.