Ninth Circuit issues opinion on R-71 petition case
Last week in California, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled to lift the ban on Washington releasing the Referendum 71 petitions. But the U.S. Supreme Court this week suspended the Ninth Circuit’s ruling, which means the ban remains in effect while the Supremes prepare to resolve this issue once and for all. In its reversal of Tacoma-based U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin Settle’s ruling last month that the petitions shouldn’t be released because they are “anonymous…