Spokane Entrepreneurial Center v. Spokane Moves to Amend the Constitution

¶1 Courts generally avoid reviewing ballot initiatives before they have been enacted into law, but a few limited types of challenges can be appropriately reviewed prior to election: procedural challenges (such as sufficiency of signatures and ballot titles) and challenges asserting that the initiative is not within the scope of the legislative authority granted to local residents. The first issue in this case is who has standing to bring those types of challenges. The Court of Appeals created new limits on who can bring such challenges, but we reverse and adhere to our existing standards…