BALLOT INITIATIVES: Supervisory control of Menahan denied as to TRO allowing counting inactive voters for signing election reform and abortion petitions… Order. [Read more…]
University bills unconstitutional but no Private AG fees
PRIVATE AG FEES: Ruling that university bills are unconstitutional affirmed… denial of Private AG fees to Plaintiffs remains undisturbed due to lack of majority on this issue… McElyea affirmed. [Read more…]
Private AG fees, challenge of SB 319 enactment
PRIVATE AG FEES: Opinion holding that private AG fees were improperly denied in challenge of SB 319 enactment withdrawn, replaced with opinion clarifying that Court will not declare a statute invalid merely for Legislature’s failure to observe its own rules… petition for rehearing otherwise denied… Order. [Read more…]
CI 14 abortion initiative ballot statement specified
CONSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVE: AG’s ballot statement for CI 14 abortion initiative rejected, Court certifies its own statement… Opinion & Order. [Read more…]
CI-14 abortion initiative improperly rejected by AG
CONSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVE: CI-14 abortion initiative improperly rejected by AG as violative of separate vote prohibition… opinion & order. [Read more…]
Private AG fees, challenge of clearly unconstitutional Bill
PRIVATE AG FEES improperly denied in challenge of questionable enactment SB 319 (2021) (prohibiting university voter registration and requiring judge recusal involving donors)… Menahan reversed. [Read more…]
Stay pending appeal, greenhouse gas/climate rulings
STAY PENDING APPEAL denied as to Seeley’s denial of stay from her rulings in favor of youths requiring State agencies to consider greenhouse gas emissions and climate impacts in MEPA analyses… order. [Read more…]
Constitutional initiative, top-4 primary
CONSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVE: BI-12 for top-4 primary incorrectly found deficient by AG based on separate-vote requirement… Opinion & Order. [Read more…]
Property taxes, “banking” school equalization mills
PROPERTY TAXES: Challenge to DOR’s authority to require counties to “bank” school equalization mills exceeding the statutory cap in one year and apply them to reach the cap in subsequent years rejected… Opinion & Order. [Read more…]
Right to know, mining Bad Actor litigation
RIGHT TO KNOW: Governor’s Office mandated to produce all requested public information in its possession notwithstanding that it overlaps pending mining Bad Actor litigation in which the requester is a party, may withhold individual documents it believes exempted on a recognized ground… pending litigation is not a recognized exception, discovery is not adequate alternative to right to know requests… mandamus denied as to DOA which does not maintain public records merely because it maintains computer systems in which they are stored… Abbott. [Read more…]