Wasson

Wasson v. Oregon ex rel. Bradbury

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210 F. App'x 562
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitNovember 14, 2006No. 05-35402California273 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM ***

Greg Wasson appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment for defendants in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging that the Oregon secretary of state’s refusal to certify for signature-gathering two initiative petitions and one referendum petition deprived him of his due process and First Amendment rights. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo the district court’s grant of summary judgment, Morrison v. Hall, 261 F.3d 896, 900 (9th Cir. 2001), and we affirm.

The district court correctly determined that the secretary of state’s refusal to certify a proposed initiative that violated the Oregon constitution’s content-neutral “single-subject” requirement for initiatives did not impermissibly burden Wasson’s First Amendment rights. See Timmons v. Twin Cities Area New Party, 520 U.S. 351, 358 , 117 S.Ct. 1364 , 137 L.Ed.2d 589 (1997) (“States may, and inevitably must, enact reasonable regulations of parties, elections, and ballots to reduce eleetion- and campaign-related disorder.”); Prete v. Bradbury, 438 F.3d 949, 961 (9th Cir.2006) (a state’s important regulatory interests “will usually be enough” to justify reasonable,…

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