McCauley v. Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Associaton

Opinion

SILLS, P. J.

The private “bounty hunter” provisions of California’s Political Reform Act of 1974 allow private individuals to sue organizations which raise money to advocate positions on ballot initiatives for reporting errors. The decision of the United States Supreme Court involving an Ohio case, McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Comm’n (1995) 514 U.S. 334 [115 S.Ct. 1511, 131 L.Ed.2d 426] (striking down statute outlawing anonymous campaign literature), raises thorny problems involving the constitutionality of California’s reporting statute, at least as it applies to private organizations…