Legal Opinion · Dissent

In re Interrogatory Propounded by Hickenlooper

Supreme Court of Colorado

Decided October 21, 2013No. Supreme Court Case No. 13SA214PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1DissentJustice Marquez

{34 In a summary order, this court declared that language in article XXI, section 83 of our state constitution conflicts with individual voters' rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.. It arrived at this conclusion with only minimal briefing, without a record or argument, and in reliance on a non-binding federal district court case from California. Today's advisory opinion explaining that order effectively nullifies language placed in the constitution a century ago by the voters of Colorado themselves, and does so absent any indication that any Colorado…

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  1. In re Interrogatory Propounded by HickenlooperSupreme Court of Colorado · 2013

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