& SC16-12 Advisory Opinion to the Attorney General Re: Rights of Electricity Consumers Regarding — Pariente, J…

Summary

Justice Pariente dissented from the majority's approval of the proposed constitutional amendment for placement on the ballot. She concluded that the title and summary were affirmatively misleading because they presented a narrow, existing right to use solar equipment as a new consumer choice while failing to disclose that the amendment would constitutionalize broad governmental power to regulate and restrict that right. She would have struck the amendment from the ballot because voters were not fairly informed of its chief purpose and practical effect.