Under state law, a bill passed by the Legislature can be put to a statewide referendum if a designated amount of petition signatures are gathered.
For these reasons, the difficult constitutional question we noted earlier, supra, at 1415, is not made significantly easier by the Boards retaliatory motive limitation since that limitation fails to exclude a substantial amount of petitioning that is objectively and subjectively genuine.
As we read it, however, the Boards definition broadly covers a substantial amount of genuine petitioning.
The amount of debt, the petition states, "is vastly beyond the ability of the city to pay".
In response to the overwhelming amount of support this petition has received, Disney has only backed down a little.
Wilkins is pleased with the amount of attention her petition has received, but she said it's only the first step in finding the answers.
The documents each fall into one of two categories: lists of railroad shareholders, including their names, places of residence, number of shares, profession, and amount of money owed; and petitions to the governing bodies of England and Ireland on behalf of manufacturers and tradesmen.
The United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, in Denver, ruled last year that the registered-voter requirement also violated the First Amendment, as did a requirement for sponsors to file monthly reports with the state disclosing the identities of signature collectors and the amount of money spent on the petition drive.
"We have not been given a set of guidelines in a reasonable amount of time," the Change.org petition reads.
Vodvarka, an Allegheny County man who had been mostly overlooked throughout the race, was formally removed from the ballot in mid-April 2010 after it was revealed he failed to garner the minimum amount of signatures for a nominating petition.
