California Court of Appeal

Proposition 21 will not be invalidated without a showing that its text, as included in the state ballot pamphlet, did not substantially comply with the Elections Code, or that the purported differences between the "qualified" text and the actual ballot text precluded the electorate from making an informed choice.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/16/2002
• Published 05/16/2002

Judges

• HUFFMAN, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  John E. Edwards, San Diego, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Elizabeth A. Hartwig and Warren P. Robinson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.