Perspective
Jun. 14, 2012
Legal challenges to California’s Proposition 13 are likely to fail
The state Supreme Court has only twice found an initiative invalid on the grounds that it was actually a revision. By Jennifer M. Fry of Pacific Legal Foundation
On June 26, a panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeal will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging a key provision of Proposition 13.
The challenge is doomed to fail.
Originally called Young v. Schmidt, but now Young v. Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, this case attacks Proposition 13's requirement that state tax increases must pass by a two-thirds vote of both chambers of the Legislature. Char...
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