Legal Opinion
Faipeas v. Municipality of Anchorage
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided October 15, 1993No. S-5605PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MATTHEWS, Justice.
I. FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS
On January 12, 1993, the Anchorage Municipal Assembly passed an ordinance which prohibited discrimination- in public employment on the basis of an individual’s sexual orientation. Soon thereafter a citizen’s group, Citizens Against the Homosexual Ordinance, began circulating a petition for a referendum on the ordinance. The group obtained more than the minimum number of signatures required and filed the petition with the municipal clerk. On February 22, 1993, the clerk certified that the petition contained sufficient signatures and met the…
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