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: How Appealing"Court Rejects Secrecy on Ballot Petitions"
In today's edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes reports that "Justices say petition signers should not expect their names to be kept secret."
Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that "Court Upholds Law Disclosing Names on Petitions."
The Chicago Tribune reports that "Supreme Court rules for disclosure of initiative signatures."
Les Blumenthal of McClatchy Newspapers reports that "Supreme Court deals setback to gay rights foes in ballot case."
The Seattle Times reports that "Ref. 71 signatures are public, Supreme Court rules."
SeattlePI.com has a report headlined "Supreme Court on R-71: Names on petitions can be made public; Public disclosure case attracted national attention."
Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined "Sign a political petition? Supreme Court says the public can know; The case centered on a Washington State referendum on a domestic partnership law; Fear of harassment, the Supreme Court ruled, is not enough to keep petition signers anonymous."
Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal reports that "High Court Rejects Effort to Keep Names of Petition Signers Secret."
And yesterday evening's broadcast of NPR's "All Things Considered" contained an audio segment entitled "Transparency Trumps Privacy In Petitions, Court Says."
Full post as published by How Appealing on June 26, 2010 (boomark / email).
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