The California Supreme Court Barred the Splitting the State Initiative not only from the 2018 Ballot, something it had already done, but also from “any future ballot.”

The Permanent Action is a consequence of the Initiative’s Proponent Abandoning any Defense of it in Planning and Conservation League v. Padilla, the Writ proceeding Challenging the Initiative’s Validity.

The Court said, “we construe the [proponent’s] filing as consenting to the entry of a stipulated judgment in favor of petitioner. The court has received no objection to proceeding in this fashion.”

The Court’s Order presumably is not Precedent that would prevent a different Split-California Initiative from Qualifying for a later Ballot.

However, any future Proponent is on Notice that Supreme Court Litigation would likely await an Initiative that is Similar to the One that the Court just Killed.











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