Hovely v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the people’s approval of an initiative is equivalent to the legislature’s enactment of a statute
• holding failure to clearly establish a liberty interest protected by due process guaranties is insufficient to overcome presumption that RCW 29.79.060 is constitutional
• “To be effective as a reservation of powers clause, the language must specifically and explicitly mention future retroactive modification of preexisting or already performed contracts.”
• court declined to review challenge where no constitutional right was affected and petitioners failed to follow statutory procedures for challenging ballot title
• “[A] court examines the body of the act to determine whether the title reflects the subject matter of the act.”
• also noting that not all initiatives have legislative titles

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).