Legal Opinion
Hessey v. Burden
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided December 29, 1992No. 92-CV-126, 92-CV-172PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERRY, Associate Judge:
This case comes before this court for a second time on the question of whether the proposed Taxpayers’ Right to Know Act qualifies as a “proper subject of initiative” under D.C.Code § 1-1320(b) (1992). In Hessey v. Burden, 584 A.2d 1 (D.C.1990) (“Hessey I”), we considered two challenges to the proposed initiative — the only two that were before us — and reversed a trial court decision sustaining those challenges. Now, after further proceedings, the case is here once again. On this second appeal we must first untangle the procedural knots in which the parties, including…
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