IN RE PROP. INIT. "FAIR FISHING"

Nos. 94SA163, 94SA164, 94SA166 and 94SA167.

877 P.2d 1355 (1994)

In the Matter of the TITLE, BALLOT TITLE AND SUBMISSION CLAUSE, AND SUMMARY APPROVED ON APRIL 6, 1994, FOR the PROPOSED INITIATED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONCERNING "FAIR FISHING", and Motion for Rehearing Denied on April 20, 1994. Mike Hogue, Petitioner, and David M. Bryans and Randolph L. Martinez, Respondents, and Title Setting Board: Stephen K. ErkenBrack, Rebecca Lennahan, and Natalie Meyer, Respondents. In the Matter of the TITLE, BALLOT TITLE, SUBMISSION CLAUSE, SUMMARY AND FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENT, FIXED APRIL 6, 1994, PERTAINING TO A PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO the CONSTITUTION OF the STATE of Colorado, DENOMINATED BY the OFFICE OF the SECRETARY OF STATE of Colorado as "FAIR FISHING", and Motion for Rehearing Denied on April 20, 1994. David M. Bryans and Randolph L. Martinez, Petitioners, and Title Setting Board: Stephen K. ErkenBrack, Rebecca Lennahan, and Natalie Meyer, Respondents, James M. Dieterich, David J. Nowak, Frederick W. Klann, Francis Lynn Vader, Marija Bocovich Vader, Jerry D. Bates, Pauline R. Bates, Charles S. Leavell, Mike Hogue, William C. Hall, Don E. Wilson, Mark Adolph Schumacher, Charles F. Cliggett, John H. Parker, II, Cynthia Cooper Smock, Douglas MacArthur Stratman, Barbara Ambrose Stratman, Wallace Allen Jones, Joseph Grant Youmans, Wilma June Youmans, Edward David Howard, Richard Bailey Wilson, Alice Lorraine Wilson, Fred R. Field, William E. Guerrieri, Luwayne Anton Ruttum, Robert Gale Meldrum, Buford F. Rice, and James C. Hackstaff, Opponents-Respondents. In the Matter of the TITLE, BALLOT TITLE, SUBMISSION CLAUSE, AND SUMMARY ADOPTED APRIL 20, 1994, BY the INITIATIVE TITLE SETTING BOARD PERTAINING TO A PROPOSED INITIATIVE ON "FAIR FISHING". William C. Hall, Don E. Wilson, Mark Adolph Schumaker, Charles E. Cliggett, John H. Parker, II, Cynthia Cooper Smock, Douglas MacArthur Stratman, Barbara Ambrose Stratman, Wallace Allen Jones, Joseph Grant Youmans, Wilma June Youmans, Edward David Howard, Richard Bailey Wilson, Alice Lorraine Wilson, Fred R. Field, William E. Guerrieri, Luwayne Anton Ruttum, Robert Gale Meldrum, Buford F. Rice, and James C. Hackstaff, Petitioners, and Randolph L. Martinez and David M. Bryans, Respondents, and Title Setting Board: Natalie Meyer, Stephen K. ErkenBrack, and Rebecca Lennahan, Respondents. In the Matter of the TITLE, BALLOT TITLE, SUBMISSION CLAUSE, AND SUMMARY ADOPTED APRIL 20, 1994, BY the TITLE BOARD PERTAINING TO A PROPOSED INITIATIVE ON "FAIR FISHING". Francis Lynn Vader, Marija Bocovich Vader, Jerry D. Bates, Pauline R. Bates, and Charles S. Leavell, Petitioners, and Randolph L. Martinez and David M. Bryans, Respondents, and Title Setting Board: Natalie Meyer, Stephen K. ErkenBrack, and Rebecca Lennahan, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing August 8, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Berry & Singer, Kent Singer, Denver, for Mike Hogue.

David M. Bryans, Westminster, for David M. Bryans and Randolph L. Martinez.

James M. Dieterich, pro se.

David J. Nowak, pro se.

Frederick W. Klann, pro se.

Brownstein Hyatt Farber & Strickland, P.C., Charles B. White, Mark J. Mathews, Denver, for Francis Lynn Vader, Marija Bocovich Vader, Jerry D. Bates, Pauline R. Bates and Charles S. Leavell.

Bratton & McClow, L. Richard Bratton, Gunnison, John R. Hill, Jr., Denver, for William C. Hall, Don E. Wilson, Mark Adolph Schumacher, Charles E. Cliggett, John H. Parker, II, Cynthia Cooper Smock, Douglas MacArthur Stratman, Barbara Ambrose Stratman, Wallace Allen Jones, Joseph Grant Youmans, Wilma June Youmans, Edward David Howard, Richard Bailey Wilson, Alice Lorraine Wilson, Fred R. Field, William E. Guerrieri, Luwayne Anton Ruttum, Robert Gale Meldrum and James C. Hackstaff.

Carlson, Hammon & Paddock, William A. Paddock, Melanie Kopperud Backes, K. Gwen Beacham, Denver, for Buford F. Rice.

Gale A. Norton, Atty. Gen., Stephen K. ErkenBrack, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Timothy M. Tymkovich, Sol. Gen., Maurice G. Knaizer, Deputy Atty. Gen., General Legal Services Div., Denver, for Title Setting Bd.


Justice ERICKSON delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Four separate original proceedings challenging the validity of the title, submission clause,1 and summary set by the Initiative Title Setting Board (Board) for a proposed initiated amendment to the Colorado Constitution (Initiative) are before us for priority review.2 The Initiative, generically and inaccurately referred to as the "Proposed Initiative on...

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