A Butler County Common Pleas Court judge didn’t immediately issue a decision Thursday in a challenge to a Butler school board member’s nominating petition for the upcoming May 16 primary.

Phil C. Heasley, a Center Township resident and a school board candidate, filed a challenge March 13 to the nominating petition that incumbent Bill Halle filed. Heasley names Halle, the Butler Area School District and the county Election Bureau as respondents in his lawsuit.

In the challenge and in court testimony, Heasley contended that Halle filed his statement of financial interests along with his petition with the bureau on March 7, the deadline for both filings, but failed to filed his financial interests statement with the school district before the deadline.