Whitson v. Anchorage

OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

The question on appeal is whether a proposed amendment to the Anchorage Municipal Charter submitted by way of initiative petition was properly removed from the ballot.

The essential facts are not in dispute. In December of 1977, Carl Whitson presented an initiative petition with the requisite number of signatures to the clerk’s office of the Municipality of Anchorage for inclusion on the ballot at the next regular Municipal election. The next election was scheduled for the fall of 1978. The petition proposed amending the Anchorage Municipal Charter by adding the…