Prete v. Bradbury

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a public interest organization seeking intervention to defend a state constitutional ballot initiative failed to defeat the presumption of adequate representation when the ultimate objective of both the organization and the defendant party was to uphold the measure’s validity
• noting that “whether certain restrictions create a ‘severe burden’ on ... First Amendment rights” is a “constitutional question! ] of fact”
• noting that “we need not reach [the issue of standing] because ... the district court erred in granting intervenor-defendants’ motion to intervene on grounds other than whether intervenor-defendants had independent standing”
• observing that, “from an economic perspective, eliminating one method of payment ... for petition circulators could result in some barriers to entry in the signature procurement market”
• assessing ban on tying compensation to number of signatures obtained for a petition as a lesser burden
• finding defendant-intervenor’s professed specialized knowledge insufficient to overcome the presumption of adequate representation by the state

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