This Sacramento Bee story says that the current California gubernatorial recall petition would have failed, except that last year a state trial court granted more time to collect the signatures. However, it wasn’t surprising that the recall proponents won the lawsuit, because earlier the same judge had also granted an extension for two initiative petitions. In the earlier lawsuit granting more time for the two initiatives, the Secretary of State did not oppose the lawsuits.

The two initiatives that received a deadline extension related to plastic waste, and sports gambling. Generally Democrats in state governmemt favored these two initiatives.