Jackson Thomas Stephens, Jr. Petitioner v. Mark Martin

Summary

The court denied the original petition seeking to remove a statewide minimum-wage initiative from the ballot. It held that the petition facially contained enough signatures at filing to qualify for the constitutional thirty-day cure period, notwithstanding later-discovered forged notary signatures, and that the petition was timely filed. The court therefore left the initiative on the ballot and ordered the mandate to issue immediately.