Oregon Taxpayers Union v. Paulus

Petitioner, Oregon Taxpayers Union,1 challenges the ballot title prepared by the Attorney General and certified to the Secretary of State for a proposed initiative that would amend the Oregon Constitution. The initiative petition underlying the ballot title at issue herein is comprehensive and, in several aspects, complex.

Petitioner has collected the 20 operative sections of the measure into 10 principal parts, basically, as follows:

1. The creation of a $20,000 homestead exemption for owner-occupied principal residences with subsequent adjustment provisions, and a renter equivalent, both…