GEBERT v. PATTERSON

Docket No. A033408.

186 Cal.App.3d 868 (1986)

231 Cal. Rptr. 150

STONY GEBERT, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. JAY PATTERSON, as Registrar of Voters, etc., Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Four.

October 28, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Arlo Hale Smith for Plaintiff and Appellant.

George Agnost, City Attorney, and Thomas J. Owen, Deputy City Attorney, for Defendant and Respondent.


OPINION

ANDERSON, P.J.

The issue here presented for the first time in California is whether a local regulation which requires the proponent of a ballot argument to pay a fee before it is published in the voter's handbook is constitutional.

Stony Gebert (appellant) was the indigent proponent of the Marijuana Privacy Act Initiative (Prop. G) on the November 1985 ballot for the City and County of San Francisco. In August 1985...

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