Susan THORSTED, a registered voter of the State of Washington; William First; Timothy S. Zenk; Margaret Colony; League of Women Voters of Washington; George Cheek; John Clute; Thomas Foley, Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants,
v.
Ralph MUNRO; Christine O. Gregoire, Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees,
Limit, Sponsor of Initiative 573; Sherry Bochwinkel, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellants-Cross-Appellees,
and
U.S. Term Limits; Alan M. Gottlieb; Lee Gill; Wilbur B. McPherson, Defendants-Intervenors.
Susan THORSTED, a registered voter of the State of Washington; William First; Timothy S. Zenk; Margaret Colony; League of Women Voters of Washington; George Cheek; John Clute; Thomas Foley, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
Ralph MUNRO; Christine O. Gregoire, Defendants,
Limit, Sponsor of Initiative 573; Sherry Bochwinkel; U.S. Term Limits; Alan M. Gottlieb; Lee Gill; Wilbur B. McPherson, Defendants-Intervenors,
and
Citizens for Term Limits, Intervenor-Defendant-Appellant.
Susan THORSTED, a registered voter of the State of Washington; William First; Timothy S. Zenk; Margaret Colony; League of Women Voters of Washington; George Cheek; John Clute; Thomas Foley, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
Ralph MUNRO; Christine O. Gregoire, Defendants-Appellants,
and
Limit, Sponsor of Initiative 573; Sherry Bochwinkel; U.S. Term Limits; Alan M. Gottlieb; Lee Gill; Wilbur B. McPherson, Defendants-Intervenors.
Susan THORSTED, a registered voter of the State of Washington; William First; Timothy S. Zenk, Plaintiffs,
and
Margaret Colony; League of Women Voters of Washington; George Cheek; John Clute; Thomas Foley, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Ralph MUNRO; Christine Gregoire, Defendants-Appellees,
and
Limit, Sponsor of Initiative 573; Sherry Bochwinkel; U.S. Term Limits; Alan M. Gottlieb; Lee Gill; Wilbur B. McPherson, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees.
Susan THORSTED, a registered voter of the State of Washington; Timothy S. Zenk; William First, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
and
Margaret Colony; League of Women Voters of Washington; George Cheek; John Clute; Thomas Foley, Plaintiffs,
v.
Ralph MUNRO; Christine Gregoire, Defendants-Appellees,
Limit, Sponsor of Initiative 573; Sherry Bochwinkel; U.S. Term Limits; Alan M. Gottlieb; Lee Gill; Wilbur B. McPherson, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Submitted June 28, 1995.
Withdrawn from Submission June 29, 1995.
Resubmitted August 18, 1995.
Decided January 4, 1996.
Published Order Filed January 30, 1996.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Polly J. Price, Griffin B. Bell, James D. Miller, King & Spalding, Washington, D.C.; Cleta Deatherage Mitchell, Term Limits Legal Institute, Washington, D.C., Shawn T. Newman, Olympia, Washington, for appellants Limit and Sherry Bochwinkel.
Ronald A. Zumbrum, Anthony T. Caso, Deborah J. LaFetra, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, California; John M. Groen, Pacific Legal Foundation, Bellevue, Washington, for defendants-intervenors-appellants, Citizens for Term Limits, et al.
John G. Kester, Terrence O'Donnell, Timothy D. Zick, Williams & Connolly, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellants U.S. Term Limits, Inc., et al.
James K. Pharris and Jeffrey T. Even, Assistant Attorneys General, Olympia, Washington for defendants-appellants-cross-appellees Munro and Gregoire.
Glen K. Thorsted, Bellevue, Washington, for plaintiffs-appellees-cross-appellants, Thorsted, Zenk and First.
Frederic C. Tausend, Stephen A. Smith, Herbert E. Wilgis, III, Preston, Gates & Ellis, Seattle, Washington, for plaintiffs-appellees-cross-appellants Colony, League of Women Voters of Washington, Cheek, Clute, Foley.
Raymond D. Battocchi, McLean, Virginia, for the Amicus Citizens United Foundation.
Kevin J. Hamilton and Thomas More Kellenberg, Perkins Coie, Seattle, Washington, for the Amicus American Civil Liberties Union of Washington.
Timothy E. Flanigan and Eric Grant, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, D.C., and Daniel J. Popeo and Paul D. Kamenar, Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, D.C., for the Amicus Washington Legal Foundation, et al.
Louis R. Cohen, Patrick J. Carome, W. Hardy Callcott, Robert F. Hoyt, Erik H. Corwin, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C., for the Amicus, Henry J. Hyde.
Before: WRIGHT, POOLE, and WIGGINS, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
ORDER
The dispositive order filed January 4, 1996, is ordered published.
ORDER
The district court in this case held unconstitutional Washington's Initiative Measure 573, which is codified at Wash.Rev.Code ch. 29. Thorsted v. Gregoire,841 F.Supp. 1068 (W.D.Wash.1994). The Washington statute is, in effect, a term-limits provision. In light of the Supreme Court's subsequent decision in U.S. Term Limits...
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