On November 26, a Nebraska state trial court ruled that two initiatives concerning medical marijuana had enough valid signatures. Kuehn v Evnen, CI24-3244. Here is the 54-page decision.

The two measures had both been on the ballot earlier this month, and both passed overwhelmingly. But a lawsuit claiming that the initiatives didn’t have enough valid signatures had been filed before the election and had continued after the election.

Sponsors had circulated two separate petitions to avoid the charge that the initiative violated the single subject rule. Even so, the challengers argued that one of the initiatives violated the single subject rule, but the judge disagreed with that charge also.

It is peculiar that Secretary of State Bob Evnen had first ruled the two petitions had enough valid signatures, and yet he still joined the lawsuit that argued the petitions didn’t have enough valid signatures.