Legal Opinion

Convention Center Referendum Committee v. Board of Elections & Ethics

District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Decided February 28, 1979No. 79-140PublishedCited by 25 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

GALLAGHER, Associate Judge:

Appellants sought a preliminary injunction to order the Board of Elections and Ethics (the Board) to receive initiative petitions which they had circulated concerning construction of a convention center. The trial court denied the injunction, and while appeal was pending we provisionally ordered the Board to receive the petitions in order to permit appellants to comply with the Charter Amendments’ requirement that petitions be received by the Board ninety days before the election in which the initiative is sought to be presented. We here affirm the denial of the…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Rockefeller v. HogueSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1968
  2. Wieck v. SterenbuchDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1976
  3. State ex rel. Linde v. HallNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1916
  4. Wolverine Golf Club v. Secretary of StateMichigan Supreme Court · 1971
  5. Wolverine Golf Club v. Secretary of StateMichigan Court of Appeals · 1970

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3Cited by25 opinions

  1. Shields v. GerhartSupreme Court of Vermont · 1995
  2. Christopher J. Godfrey v. State of Iowa Terry Branstad, Governor of the State of Iowa, Individually and in His Official Capacity Kimberly Reynolds, Lieutenant Governor of the State of Iowa, Individually and in Her Official Capacity Jeffrey Boeyink, Chief of Staff to the Governor of the State of Iowa, Individually and in His Official Capacity Brenna Findley, Legal Counsel to the Governor of TheSupreme Court of Iowa · 2017
  3. Bandoni v. StateSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1998
  4. State v. SanabriaSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1984
  5. State v. RodriguesHawaii Supreme Court · 1981

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