Legal Opinion
Allen Mark Dacus, Elizabeth C. Perez and Rev. Robert Jefferson v. Annise D. Parker and City of Houston
Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)
Decided July 10, 2012No. 14-11-00688-CVPublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
TRACY CHRISTOPHER, Justice.
In this election contest, three Houston voters contend that the language used in election ballots to describe a proposed amendment to the City’s charter was misleading. They additionally assert that both the proposed amendment and the ballot language used to describe it impermis-sibly addressed more than one subject. The trial court granted summary judgment to the contestees, Mayor Annise D. Parker and the City of Houston, and denied the contestants’ motion for new trial. We affirm.
I. TERMINOLOGY
One of the primary issues in this case is the question of…
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