Campbell v. Buckley

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

KANE, Senior District Judge.

Plaintiffs are individual activists and proponents of past and present Colorado ballot initiatives and nonprofit public interest groups dedicated to the promotion and protection of citizen initiative processes. Together they filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action challenging the constitutionality of Colorado’s petition laws,,and seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. Specifically, Plaintiffs challenge § 1(5.5) of article Y of the Colorado Constitution, which proscribes the circulation of any proposed ballot initiative for…