What disconcerts me is you're going on about procedure, which may be all well and good under a certain set of circumstances, or may actually turn out to be very Pharisaic. As far as Virginia is concerned, the only valid reason I see for them having no standing in a lower court is because the lower court does not have original jurisdiction in this matter. Since Virginia is a State, and cases where a State is a party requires the Supreme Court having original jurisdiction, Virginia made the mistake of starting in the lower court where Democrat judges reign.