Stay Strong, Status Quo, a Local Option Ballot Question Committee and Bevans Family Limited Partnership v. the Van…

Summary

The court affirmed the circuit court’s decision allowing the local-option ballot measure to remain on the November 3, 2020 general-election ballot. It held that, accounting for the Sunday rule, the circuit court ruled sufficiently before the election and that the statutory deadline concerning an election delayed until after the court’s final decision did not apply because the record did not show that the county election commission had chosen to delay the election. The mandate was ordered to issue immediately.