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... candidates, challenged the constitutionality of the matching ------ * Together with No. 10-23... of the first State, acting through referendum, enactseveral campaign finance measures previously...
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A pending ballot referendum that would allow voters to decide the fate of publicly funded political campaigns in Arizona could be deemed illegal by a county judge, but a former lawmaker who has set his sights on Arizona's Clean Elections system promises voters will have the last word.
During oral arguments held today, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Dean Fink strongly indicated that he is likely to remove SCR1025 from the ballot on grounds that it violates the single amendment requirement of the state Constitution.
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... submitted prohibition laws to popular referendum. (88) An Indiana appellate court noted that granti...Compare D.C. Lewis, Arizona's Constitution--The Initiative, the Referendum, th...
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- 99 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 2437, 1999 Daily Journal D.A.R. 3185 Joanne Stone; James Craig, Jovita Fine, Joseph Wenzel, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Charlene Craig, Plaintiff, v. City of Prescott, a Municipality Entity; Hassayampa Lake Holdings, L.L.C., Defendants-Appellees, and Malcolm Barrett; Lindsay Bell; Paul Daly; Louis Franyi; Nancy Holaday; Philip King; Mary Ann Suttles; Karen Thompson; Daiton Rutkowski; Harold Wise; John Moffitt, Defendants., 173 F.3d 1172 (9th Cir. 1999)
William B. Fortner, Prescott, Arizona, for the plaintiffs-appellants. Ralph M. Hess, Pre... to petition for a city-wide referendum challenging certain real property transfers. The d...Under the Arizona Constitution the people reserved the power of the referendum. S...
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When George Wylie Paul Hunt plunked his 300 pounds into the Arizona governor's chair, he was a hard man to remove, even when it looked as if the voters had tossed him out.
Hunt was Arizona's first governor. He also was its third, fifth and seventh, serving a total of seven two-year terms, a feat unlikely to be matched.
... the convention that wrote Arizona's Constitution, supporting such issues as initiative, referendum ...
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..., may be a sign that there is a constitutional challenge forming between the Congress' legitimate... And we've got states like Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklaho... . Each one of these states had a referendum last year to amend the Constitution, to provide fo...
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A referendum that would've put S1070 on the ballot has been called off over concerns that organizers would not have had enough time to mount an effective campaign against the popular new illegal immigration law.
Andrew Chavez, who had been hired to collect signatures for a group calling itself One Arizona, said his clients decided over the weekend to abandon the referendum because they did not want it on the 2010 ballot. Chavez, of the firm Petition Partners, said the referendum organizers felt that the short timeframe and public support for S1070 would have been difficult obstacles to overcome.
... had a duty under the Arizona Constitution to put the referendum on the 2010 ballot, regardle...
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Arizona's 49th Legislature has been tasked with keeping the state financially afloat during the most troubling economic times in state history. But the choices lawmakers made this year in an effort to balance the budget have led to six lawsuits challenging the state's use of fund sweeps to fill in deficits.
The state has already lost two of those suits and two more appear headed toward a similar outcome. Counting challenges to fund sweeps, policy changes and a state Supreme Court battle with Gov. Jan Brewer, the Legislature has been sued a dozen times this year, costing the state valuable resources to defend the cases in court.
... Legislature doesn't care about the Constitution," said Paul Eckstein, a Phoenix attorney. "They've...In Arizona, he noted, a legislative referendum to change the Constitution to ban gay marriage was...