Citizens Coalition for Tort Reform, Inc. v. McAlpine

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• relying on a 1966 dictionary to determine the plain meaning of article XI, section 7
• ”[T]he law-making powers assigned to the legislature are to be liberally construed as within the people's right to legislate by initiative.”
• ‘We review the trial court’s determination of public interest status under the abuse of discretion standard.”
• “[W]e must never lose sight of another important right of the people implicated in all cases of constitutional construction, namely the right to have the constitution upheld as the people ratified it.”
• organization sued to force certification of initiative supporting tort reform

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).