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Judge rules Proposition 23 ballot language must be reworded
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| Author | Paul Rogers |
| Media | Newspaper - San Jose Mercury News |
| News Date | Wednesday, August 4, 2010 06:15:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A state judge Tuesday ordered the ballot language of Proposition 23 -- a November measure that would suspend California's landmark global warming law -- to be rewritten, handing a victory to supporters of the measure who said Attorney General Jerry Brown wrote misleading and biased wording.
Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley ruled in favor of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, which filed the lawsuit last week.
Under Frawley's ruling, the phrase "major polluters" must be replaced with "major sources of emissions." He also said the title and summary of the measure cannot say that it would "abandon" California's greenhouse gas laws, but rather would "suspend" them, among other changes.
Frawley sided with supporters of the measure who argued that the word "polluters" is prejudiced because the laws affect lots of sources of carbon dioxide and because voters typically think of smog, not greenhouse gases, in that context. Opponents of the measure argued that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that carbon dioxide is a pollutant that can be regulated by the U.S. EPA under the Clean Air Act. |
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