Weaver v. Jordan

Defendant appeals from an adverse judgment in a declaratory relief action which attacks as unconstitutional *238an initiative measure adopted by the electorate at the November 1964 general election, and entitled by its proponents and draftsmen the “Free Television Act” (hereinafter “the Act”). Designated as Proposition 15 on the ballot, the .Act undertakes to ban in California the business of home subscription television. For reasons which will appear, we have concluded that the trial court correctly determined the Act to be invalid as an abridgment of the free speech guaranties of state and…