Legal Opinion
Edelstein v. City & County of San Francisco
California Supreme Court
Decided November 7, 2002No. S102530PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BROWN, J.
The question presented by this case is whether former section 13.102 of article XIII of the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco (repealed Mar. 5, 2000; hereafter section 13.102), by prohibiting write-in voting in runoff elections for municipal offices, violated the free speech clause of the California Constitution (art. I, § 2, subd. (a)). We conclude it did not.
*168In Canaan v. Abdelnour (1985) 40 Cal.3d 703 [221 Cal.Rptr. 468, 710 P.2d 268, 69 A.L.R.4th 915] (Canaan), this court struck down, as violative of the free speech clauses of both the state and federal…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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