Legal Opinion
Evans v. Romer
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided July 19, 1993No. 93SA17PublishedCited by 110 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rovira
Defendants, Roy Romer, Governor of the State of Colorado, Gale A. Norton, Attorney General of the State of Colorado, and the State of Colorado (referred to collectively as “defendants”) appeal the trial court’s entry of a preliminary injunction enjoining them from enforcing a voter-initiated amendment to the Colorado Constitution (“Amendment 2”). We affirm.
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In May 1992, the requisite number of qualified voters submitted petitions to the secretary of state to present to the electorate a new section 30 to article II of the Colorado Constitution. The proposed constitutional amendment was put to…
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