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Comparative Constitutional Law Keyed to Sutton, 5th Ed.
Couey v. Atkins
Citation:
355 P.3d 866, 357 Or. 460 (2015)Facts
Marquis Couey registered with the Oregon Secretary of State to work as a paid initiative petition signature collector for Initiative Petitions 28 and 70 during the 2010 election cycle. He performed that work in the winter and early spring of 2010. During that time, he became interested in collecting signatures for Initiative Petition 42, which concerned environmental protection, but on a volunteer basis. He was concerned that ORS 250.048(9) prohibited him from collecting signatures as both a paid collector and volunteer simultaneously. On April 19, 2010, Couey filed suit challenging the statute’s constitutionality. However, he stopped working as a paid collector a few weeks later, and his registration expired on July 2, 2010, when the election cycle ended.
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