Yeah, it’s been a mess.
The RPV put out a statement, at last, yesterday:
http://www.rpv.org/node/1037
We probably won’t hear any more until the court cases play out or an agreement is reached.
The Osborne suit was filed on Oct 24, 2011. So if the VA GOP issued the new 15,000 no-check rule in October (and not November), it had to be just before Halloween.