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[NE] Lawsuit: Legislature is unconstitutional
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Jan 13, 2005 03:18am |
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| Category | News |
| News Date | Wednesday, January 12, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Lincoln Journal Star article.
An excerpt..."To heck with fighting City Hall, a Nebraska man upset over his property taxes wants a federal judge to declare the state's one-house Legislature unconstitutional.
James Widtfeldt, an attorney in Atkinson, says in a federal lawsuit that Nebraska's unicameral Legislature is not a Republican form of government guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
"The abbreviated Nebraska Legislature shortchanges Nebraskans," Widtfeldt argues in the lawsuit against state and local tax boards, which were created by the Legislature.
Nebraska voters in 1934 changed the constitution to convert from a two-house, partisan legislature to a one-house, nonpartisan legislature." |
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