Meyer v. Bradbury

Plaintiffs brought this action seeking to enjoin defendant Secretary of State from placing a proposed initiative, Initiative Petition (IP) 8, on the November 2006 ballot on the ground that it violates the separate-vote requirement found in Article XVII, section 1, of the Oregon Constitution. The trial court concluded that IP 8 did not propose more than one substantive change to the constitution, denied plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment, and granted defendants’ motion. Plaintiffs appeal, assigning error to those rulings. In response, defendants raise several arguments as to why the trial…