ACLU, IDAHO CHAPTER v. ECHOHAWK

Nos. 20613, 20618.

857 P.2d 626 (1993)

124 Idaho 147

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, IDAHO CHAPTER; Idaho for Human Dignity, Inc., an Idaho non-profit corporation; Brian J. Bergquist, an Idaho elector; Elizabeth Barker Brandt, an Idaho elector; and Mary-Evelyn Smith, an Idaho elector, Petitioners, v. Larry ECHOHAWK, Attorney General of the State of Idaho; and Pete Cenarrusa, Secretary of State of the State of Idaho, Respondents. STOP SPECIAL RIGHTS COMMITTEE, Kelly A. Walton, an Idaho elector; Ellen J. Stark, an Idaho elector, Petitioners, v. Larry ECHOHAWK, Attorney General of the State of Idaho; and Pete Cenarrusa, Secretary of State of the State of Idaho, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Idaho, Boise, June 1993 Term.

August 3, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George C. Patterson, Boise, for petitioners.

Kelly Walton, Heyburn, for petitioner Stop Special Rights Committee.

Larry EchoHawk, Atty. Gen., and Francis P. Walker, Deputy Atty. Gen., Boise, for respondents. Francis P. Walker argued.


McDEVITT, Chief Justice.

BACKGROUND

The Idaho Citizens Alliance ("ICA") is spearheading an effort to obtain enough signatures to get an initiative regarding state law treatment of homosexuality on the ballot. The ICA submitted the proposed initiative to the Idaho Attorney General's Office, and the Attorney General, after conducting a non-binding legal review of the substance of the initiative, crafted short and long titles for the proposed initiative...

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