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STATE EX REL. MARTIN v. ERVIN

A8503-01854; CA A37019.

722 P.2d 1289 (1986)

80 Or. App. 555

STATE ex rel. Priscilla M. MARTIN, Bill Sizemore, Ronald C. Engan, Chief Petitioners, Respondents, v. Vicki ERVIN, Multnomah County Director of Elections, and Earl Blumenauer, Presiding Officer, Board of County Commissioners, and Caroline Miller, Pauline Anderson, Gretchen Kafoury, and Gordon Shadburne, Commissioners, Board of County Commissioners, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Oregon.

Decided August 6, 1986.

Reconsideration Denied September 26, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Leahy, County Counsel, Multnomah County, Portland, argued the cause, for appellants. With him on briefs was Jane Ellen Stonecipher, Asst. County Counsel, Multnomah County, Portland.

Henry Kane, Beaverton, argued the cause and filed the brief, for petitioners, respondents.

Before WARDEN, P.J., and VAN HOOMISSEN and YOUNG, JJ.

VAN HOOMISSEN, Judge.

Defendants are the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners and the county's Director of Elections. They appeal the trial court's writ of mandamus directing them to hold a referendum election on a county ordinance. Defendants argue that the repeal of the ordinance, after defendant Ervin certified that the petition to refer the ordinance contained more than the required number of qualified signatures, left nothing for the voters to decide. We agree...

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