Colorado Anti-Affirmative Action Initiative
What's at Stake
A challenge to a misleading, far-reaching anti-equal opportunity measure in Colorado. The petition considered in this case is one of a series of anti-affirmative action initiatives being forwarded in 5 states for the fall of 2008, and is deceptively billed by its sponsors as a ban on "discrimination" and "preferences."
Summary
The petition sponsored by the so-called Colorado Civil Rights Initiative
(CO-CRI) is one of a series of anti-affirmative action measures being
forwarded by as part of a national
movement to roll back equal opportunity.
Concerned
that XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 />Colorado voters would be deceived by the
initiative鈥檚 misleading language and forced to consider numerous different
issues in a single measure, advocates filed a legal challenge to the petition in
July of 2007. The challenge emphasized the initiative鈥檚 prejudicial and
misleading use of the phrase 鈥減referential treatment鈥� as a means to induce
voters to dismantle a broad range of equal opportunity programs. A divided
Supreme Court upheld the CO-CRI鈥檚 misleading ballot language in this past
September, and the CO-CRI began to gather signatures to get its petition on the
ballot immediately thereafter.
On March 2008, the CO-CRI submitted its signatures to the office of the Secretary of State, which certified the measure. The initiative is slated to appear on the November ballot as Amendment 46.
Legal Documents
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12/30/1899
CO Anti-Affirmative Action Initiative: ACRI Reply Brief in Title Challenge
Date Filed: 12/30/1899
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09/10/2007
CO Anti-Affirmative Action Initiative: Supreme Court Ruling in Title Challenge
Date Filed: 09/10/2007
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08/06/2007
CO Anti-Affirmative Action Initiative: Answer Brief of Objectors in Title Challenge
Date Filed: 08/06/2007
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08/03/2007
CO Anti-Affirmative Action Initiative: Title Board Answer Brief in Title Challenge
Date Filed: 08/03/2007
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07/27/2007
CO Anti-Affirmative Action Initiative: 老澳门开奖结果 Amicus in Title Challenge
Date Filed: 07/27/2007
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07/27/2007
CO Anti-Affirmative Action Initiative: Amicus Brief in Title Challenge Arguing Against the Prejudicial Use of the Phrase "Preferential Treatment"
Date Filed: 07/27/2007
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07/16/2007
CO Anti-Affirmative Action Initiative: ACRI Opening Brief in Title Challenge
Date Filed: 07/16/2007
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07/16/2007
CO Anti-Affirmative Action Initiative: Objectors' Opening Brief in Title Challenge
Date Filed: 07/16/2007
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07/16/2007
CO Anti-Affirmative Action Initiative: Title Board Opening Brief in Title Challenge
Date Filed: 07/16/2007