Group Favoring Fracking Ban Seeks Ruling On Long-Running Ballot Initiative Dispute

(July 8, 2020, 1:46 PM EDT) -- LANSING, Mich. — A group that opposes hydraulic fracturing and wants to get a referendum on the ballot filed a lawsuit in Michigan court on July 6, seeking a declaration that a state law is unconstitutional as it is applied to statutory initiative petitions under the state constitution, and it wants a permanent injunction requiring a state agency to canvass the group’s petition without exclusion of petition signatures (Committee to Ban Fracking in Michigan v. Board of State Canvassers, No. 20-125MM, Mich. Clms.)....

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