Bogert v. Kistler’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “We are convinced that it would be pointless to compel the city clerk to proceed with the duties outlined in the initiative and referendum statute, with respect to a proposed ordinance clearly not the subject of such proceeding. In Schultz v. Philadelphia, 385 Pa. 79 . . . [a]t page 86, the court said: “It is urged that the Court should not pass upon the validity of the proposed legislation at this time but should defer a decision thereon until after the measure shall have been voted upon at the polls. We cannot subscribe to this point of view. The question of validity has been argued before us . . . and since ... we are convinced that the legislation is in fact invalid, it would ... be wholly unjustified to allow the voters to give their time, thought and deliberation to the question of the desirability of the legislation . . . and thereafter, if their vote be affirmative, confront them with a judicial decree that their action was in vain. ...””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cottone v. Kulis