Overfelt v. McCaskill

JOSEPH M. ELLIS, Chief Judge.

On March 1, 2002, the Missouri Secretary of State received eight proposed initiative petitions related to state taxes on tobacco products. One of those petitions, referred to by the parties and hereinafter by this court as the “Version 2 Initiative Petition,” proposed an increase in the state cigarette excise tax of two and three-quarters cents per cigarette 1 and an increase in the state tax on other tobacco products from ten percent to thirty percent.

Pursuant to § 116.175, 2 the Secretary of State forwarded the Version 2 Initiative Petition to the Missouri State…