Stanwood v. Roberts

Petitioner Stanwood challenges the ballot title prepared by the Attorney General for an initiative petition that proposes, inter alia, to place in the Oregon Constitution a 5% sales and use tax with the provision requiring implementing legislation at some future date by the legislature. Pursuant to ORS 250.035 and 250.065, the Attorney General drafted a ballot title.1

Petitioner challenged the original title as insufficient or unfair in seven different ways and urges the court to make the following changes:

THE CAPTION

1. The words “use tax” should be deleted because the use tax aspect of the…