Carley v. Myers

On March 21, 2006, this court by order certified to the Secretary of State the ballot title that the Attorney General had certified for Initiative Petition 104 (2006). Petitioners seek reconsideration of that order under ORAP 11.30(12)(a).

The focus of the petition for reconsideration is the following sentence in the summary:

“Requires assignment of nursing assistant and either a nurse or ‘CMA’ for each resident * * *.”

Petitioners point out that they had objected to the reference to “CMA” in the Attorney General’s ballot title as an unfamiliar, undefined term that would cause confusion. They…