RECENT CALIFORNIA DECISIONS

February 2008

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First District Court Finds Defects in Signatures to Association’s Referendum Petition Cannot Be Cured by Declaration of Petition Circular
Friends of Bay Meadows v. City of San Mateo, ___Cal. App.4th___

On December 12, 2007, the First District Court of Appeal determined that defects in the validity of signatures to a referendum petition could not be cured by declaration of the petition circulator, and the lack of such signatures rendered all other pending issues moot.