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Sangiacomo v. Padilla
Closed
Sangiacomo v. Padilla, No. 34-2020-80003413 (Cal. Super. Ct., Sacramento Cnty.) |
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| Case Summary | Proponents of ballot initiative seek a suspension or extension of the usual 180-day deadline for collecting petition signatures for such an initiative. They allege that COVID restrictions have impeded their ability to collect signatures, and that a failure to relax the deadline would, among other things, constitute a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Plaintiffs sought a peremptory writ of mandamus extending the 180 day deadline until all counties had been authorized to move to stage 3 of the re-opening guidelines. | |
| Filed | 06/23/2020 | |
| State | California | |
| Type of Court | State | |
| Status | Closed (Court granted petition to extend the deadline by which Petitioners must submit signatures in support of their initiative. The deadline to submit petitions to county election officials is moved to September 28, 22.) | |
| Last Updated | 09/01/2020 | |
| Issue Tag(s) | Petition Signature Requirement (Deadline/Time to Collect, E-signatures) | |
| Complaint(s) | 06/23/2020: Complaint filed. | |
| Dispositive Ruling(s) | 07/02/2020: Order/Ruling, Extension of deadline granted; respondent did not oppose and court found that petitioners had established that the failure to extend the deadline would violate the petitioner’s constitutional rights. | |
| 07/16/2020: Order/Ruling, Judgment for petitioners | ||
