Background
YOTL was filed in August 2007 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma by Oklahoma Yes on Term Limits against Susan Savage, the Oklahoma Secretary of State. The plaintiffs alleged that the part of Oklahoma's I&R law requiring that petition circulators be residents of Oklahoma was an unconstitutional infringement of the first amendment rights of the initiative proponents and of initiative circulators. The group said that its ability to qualify an initiative petition to put a term limits amendment on the Oklahoma ballot was unconstitutionally restricted by the state's rules governing petition circulators.
Judge Tim Leonard of the Western District disagreed, ruling against the plaintiffs on September 7, 2007., An appeal to the ruling has been filed with the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Yes on Term Limits, represented by Todd Graves on behalf of the Center for Competitive Politics, filed its final appeal brief on January 7, 2008. Drew Edmondson filed his response brief on February 11, and Yes on Term Limits subsequently filed its final reply brief on February 28. Two amicus briefs were filed in the case, both supporting the views of "Yes on Term Limits". The Institute for Justice filed one, as did the American Civil Rights Coalition.
Read more about this topic: Yes On Term Limits V. Savage
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