| Excerpt: | Senate Bill 1110 does not comport with the Gem State's plan of government because it infringes upon the fundamental rights of direct democracy guaranteed to Idahoans by Article III, Section I of the state's constitution. |
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| Published at: | 4:07 PM on Monday, August 23rd, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Fair Elections, ID-Ballot |
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Category Archives: Litigation
Idaho Supreme Court voids Republican Legislature’s newest anti-initiative law
Tim Eyman pleads poverty in latest appeal for cash, says legal fees have “drained me dry”
| Excerpt: | The failed gubernatorial candidate and dishonest initiative promoter claims to be out of money and wants his friends to bail him out. Again. |
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| Published at: | 9:05 PM on Friday, July 9th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Open Government |
| Tags: | Campaign Disclosure, Permanent Defense |
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Donald Trump frivolously sues big tech firms in his latest ploy for money and attention
| Excerpt: | “This lawsuit is a stunt, and it’s unlikely to find traction in the courts,” Jameel Jaffer, director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, told the Daily Beast. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Thursday, July 8th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Fair Elections |
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United States Supreme Court upholds the Patient Protection Act for the *third* time
| Excerpt: | Republicans have spent the last few years packing the Supreme Court full of extremely right wing justices and they still haven't been able to knock down the Patient Protection Act with a legal challenge. |
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| Published at: | 1:13 PM on Thursday, June 17th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Healthcare |
| Tags: | Insurance & Coverage |
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Judge Mary Roberts: Seattle’s JumpStart revenue ordinance is legal and constitutional
| Excerpt: | The City of Seattle has the legal authority to levy an excise tax on annual payrolls of $7 million or higher with employees who make $150,000 or more annually, a King County Superior Court judge has ruled. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 PM on Friday, June 4th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Litigation |
| Tags: | Budgeting, Fiscal Responsibility, Strong Commonwealth |
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Judge punishes Tim Eyman for egregiously violating Washington’s public disclosure laws
| Excerpt: | Eyman must pay a $2.6 million fine and is now prohibited from flying solo as an officer of a political committee, Thurston County Superior Court Judge Dixon decreed. |
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| Published at: | 6:00 PM on Wednesday, February 10th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Litigation |
| Tags: | Permanent Defense, State of Washington v. Tim Eyman |
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Loren Culp, Stephen Pidgeon scrap their absurd lawsuit against elections officials
| Excerpt: | In an attempt to explain their retreat, Culp and Pidgeon offered a plethora of excuses to their rabid right wing followers during a Facebook Live event, none of which were true. |
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| Published at: | 3:49 PM on Friday, January 15th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Fair Elections |
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The mother of all grocery bills: GMA must pay $18 million fine for 2013 disclosure violations
| Excerpt: | The Grocery Manufacturers Association remains on the hook for a record-setting judgment because it flagrantly violated Washington State's public disclosure laws during its efforts to defeat a GMO labeling initiative. |
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| Published at: | 8:34 PM on Friday, November 13th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Elections, Open Government |
| Tags: | Clean Campaigns, WA-Ballot |
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AG Bob Ferguson lays the blame for I‑976 debacle where it belongs: with Tim Eyman
| Excerpt: | Washington State's chief law enforcement officer says that the demise of Initiative 976 is dishonest initiative promoter Tim Eyman's fault. And he's right. |
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| Published at: | 8:44 PM on Thursday, October 15th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Permanent Defense, WA-Ballot |
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HUGE VICTORY: Washington’s highest court rules Tim Eyman’s I‑976 is unconstitutional!
| Excerpt: | "Initiative Measure 976 contains more than one subject, and its subject is not accurately expressed in its title. Accordingly, it is unconstitutional," the Washington State Supreme Court has ruled. |
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| Published at: | 4:40 PM on Thursday, October 15th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Elections, Public Planning |
| Tags: | Permanent Defense, Transportation, WA-Ballot |
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Court of Appeals rejects Compassion Seattle appeal, keeping Charter Amendment 29 off the November general election ballot