UHLER Et Al. v. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR-CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS Et Al.

Applicants ask that I stay a mandate of the Supreme Court of California prohibiting the placement on California’s November 1984 ballot of a proposed “balanced federal budget statutory initiative.” The initiative would have required the California Legislature to request Congress to call a Constitutional Convention for the purpose of amending the United States Constitution to require a balanced federal budget. If the legislature failed to act, the initiative would have directed the California Secretary of State, the nominal respondent in this ease, to apply directly to Congress in behalf of the…