Paisner v. Attorney General

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• holding that attorney general has discretion to determine whether initiative would enact \law\ before certifying petition
• rejecting narrow construction of Attorney General’s role in certifying petitions as to proper form
• rejecting “narrow and technical” reading of “proper form” requirement while holding that a proposed measure is not in “proper form” if it is not in the form of a law
• implicitly assuming, without deciding, that proponents had standing to challenge Attorney General’s decision not to certify initiative petition
• Attorney General has duty not to certify initiative petitions not in the form of a law
• “the Attorney General has ... the duty, pursuant to his review of the ‘form’ of the initiative petition, to apply his legal judgment to the issue whether a law is proposed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).