FAIPEAS v. MUNICIPALITY OF ANCHORAGE

No. S-5605.

860 P.2d 1214 (1993)

Connie FAIPEAS, Christina Neal, J. Les Baird, Logan Wakefield, Anne Milton, Herman Coen, Jr., Dan Carter, Jerry Roop, Ileen Self, Faron W. Purget, John F. Allen, Petitioners, v. MUNICIPALITY OF ANCHORAGE, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

October 15, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allison E. Mendel, Mendel & Huntington, Anchorage, for petitioners.

Denis R. Lazarus, Asst. Mun. Atty., Richard L. McVeigh, Mun. Atty., Anchorage, for respondent.

Before MOORE, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ.


OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

I. FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS

On January 12, 1993, the Anchorage Municipal Assembly passed an ordinance which prohibited discrimination in public employment on the basis of an individual's sexual orientation. Soon thereafter a citizen's group, Citizens Against the Homosexual Ordinance, began circulating a petition for a referendum on the ordinance. The group obtained more...

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