In July 2009, the 1851 Center filed an Amicus Brief on behalf of LetOhioVote.org, a ballot issue committee seeking to subject the state’s authorization of Video Lottery Terminals to a public vote through referendum. In the brief, the Center stressed the importance of referendum rights, and demonstrated that suppression of those rights in this instance, merely because the legislatures has attached the authorization as a rider to the state’s budget bill, would effectively eviscerate referendum rights (the legislature could simply attach all controversial measures to appropriations bills to immunize them from the scrutiny of Referendum). The Supreme Court of Ohio recently sided with LetOhioVote.org, 6-1, and LetOhioVote.org is currently gathering signatures.
Protecting Ohio’s Referendum
July 24, 2009 By
LetOhioVote.org v. Brunner
July 24, 2009 By
1851 Center Files Amicus In Supreme Court Slots Case
COLUMBUS – The Buckeye Institute’s 1851 Center for Constitutional Law Friday filed an amicus brief in LetOhioVote.org v. Brunner with the Ohio Supreme Court. The legal center’s filing supports a public vote on video slot machines at Ohio horse race tracks. The 1851 Center filed the brief on behalf of Ohio Citizen Action, Citizens in Charge and the Ohio Freedom Alliance. The amicus brief urges the court to find language in the state budget excluding the authorization of video slot machines from referendum unconstitutional. [Read more...]
