San Francisco Forty-Niners v. Nishioka

Opinion

MARCHIANO, J.

The San Francisco Superior Court issued a writ of mandate prohibiting respondent San Francisco Director of Elections from qualifying an initiative measure for the ballot. The writ issued on the ground that the circulating initiative petition contained false statements intended to mislead voters and induce them to sign the petition. The three proponents of the initiative appeal from the judgment granting the writ. We affirm because an initiative petition which contains objectively inaccurate information and calculated untruths that substantially mislead and misinform a…