Umrein v. Heimbigner

How courts have described this case

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• exercising supreme court's own discretion in awarding attorney fees to plaintiffs suing to enforce \their constitutionally guaranteed power to initiate local legislation\
• awarding attorney fees under Oregon's version of the private attorney general doctrine because parties exercising the constitutional right to place initiative petitions on the ballot were \protecting the rights of others as much as [their] own\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• awarding attorney fees under Oregon’s version of the private attorney general doctrine because parties exercising the constitutional right to place initiative petitions on the ballot were “protecting the rights of others as much as [their] own” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).