Wading a second time into a fight over a citizen’s initiative to protect national and linguistic minorities and their cultural heritages, the EU’s general court ruled Tuesday that the European Commission had the authority to register the initiative and gave sufficient reasons for doing so.
Read moreThe Nebraska Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared a citizens’ initiative to put Medicaid expansion on the November ballot, despite a legal challenge from Republican legislators.
Read moreAccusing a Silicon Valley billionaire of abusing the initiative process, an environmental group urged the California Supreme Court to erase a November ballot measure to divide the Golden State in three.
Read moreThe nation’s most populous state and its $2.7 trillion economy could be broken up, as California officials late Tuesday qualified a plan for the November ballot that would slice the Golden State in three.
Read moreIf one California is great, might three be better? Probably not, opponents of a voter-sponsored initiative to divide the state told members of the Legislature during an informational hearing Wednesday.
Read moreTwo Seattle taxpayers lost their constitutional challenge to a voter initiative that sends vouchers to residents so they can financially support political candidates.
Read moreA citizen of debt-ravaged Greece failed Tuesday to have the European Court of Justice revive a legislative initiative that would cancel the debts of member states in the midsts of existential crises.
Read moreTwo residents of Mountain View, California, claim the city’s Rental Housing Committee failed to implement a voter-approved rent-control ordinance, the Community Stabilization and Fair Rent Act, in Santa Clara County Court.
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A New Mexico nonprofit has challenged the constitutionality of a Santa Fe city law that requires nonprofits that spend more than $250 speaking about municipal ballot issues to reveal the names and other information about their donors.
Read moreHealth care advocates brought a federal complaint against Colorado, claiming a voter-approved constitutional amendment discriminates against urban voters by making it more difficult for them to place petitions on the ballot.
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