Shiva Ayyadurai, an entrepreneur who launched a challenge for U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s seat as a Republican before switching his party affiliation to independent, is seeking a preliminary injunction against the University of Massachusetts hoping to stop scheduled debates from which he says he is being blocked. Ayyadurai filed a lawsuit last week against UMass, which is co-hosting a debate …

Why wasn’t independent candidate Shiva Ayyadurai invited to participate in a series of three Massachusetts U.S. Senate debates with Democrat incumbent Elizabeth Warren and Republican Geoff Diehl? We just went through a 3rd Congressional District primary race with 10 Democrat candidates — some of whom never had a chance to win from the very beginning — but they were all …

Independent U.S. Senate Candidate Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai filed a federal lawsuit against the University of Massachusetts for what his campaign called attempting to rig the debates for the Senate election by keeping him off the debate stage, according a press release from his campaign Wednesday night. The complaint alleges violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States …

A New York man arrested last month after he pushed a megaphone into the face of an independent U.S. Senate candidate was sentenced to probation and issued a fine, The Berkshire Eagle reports. Paul Solovay, 74, of Hillsdale, who faced assault and battery and disorderly conduct charges, was ordered on Aug. 16 to complete nine months of probation and a …