Legal Opinion
Angle v. Miller
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 14, 2012No. 17-56708PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FISHER, Circuit Judge:
Nevada permits direct legislation through ballot initiatives. To qualify an initiative for the ballot, proponents must obtain signatures from a number of registered voters equal to 10 percent of the votes cast in the previous general election in each of the state’s congressional districts. The district court held that this geographic distribution requirement, which requires proponents to collect signatures from each of the state’s congressional districts, violates neither the Equal Protection Clause nor the First Amendment. We affirm.
I. Background
The Nevada…
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