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Oregon Domestic Partnership Law Upheld
Comments 0 | Recommend 0A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to the Oregon domestic partnership law approved by the Legislature last year.
Opponents had tried to collect enough initiative signatures to put the issue to a statewide vote. But Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury ruled they did not get enough.
His ruling was challenged in federal court, but a judge upheld Bradbury's decision.
Yesterday the 9th US. Circuit Court of Appeals also affirmed the secretary of state's ruling.
The ruling also supports the statistical sampling method of checking initiative petitions to make sure enough valid signatures have been submitted.
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