Case Title: Cox v. Cox

Citation: 

Docket Number: 20150261

State: utah

Court: Utah Supreme Court

Date: 2015-07-17T00:00:00Z

Document:
Inte FILED

 

UTAH APPELLATE COURTS:
SUPREME COURT OFTHE STATEOFUTAH yi 47 295
FRED C. Cox,
Petitioner,

v

‘SPENCER J. COX, in his capacity as
Lieutenant Governor of the State of Utah,
Respondent

Case No.20150261-SC

ORDER

This matter is before the Court on a petition for extraordinary relief. The
petition pertains to a contemplated referendum for the repeal of HB 454, entitled
“Prison Development Amendments," enacted by the Utah Legislature during the
2015 General Session, which ended on March 12, 2015. The petition asserts that a
‘group of sponsors prepared a referendum application and that they "attempted to
submit their Application on March 27, 2015, but [were] refused and denied that
opportunity by the Utah [Lieutenant] Governor's Election Office, based on the
[five-day] deadline found in Utah Code, 208-7302" The Petitioner has not
identified himselfas one of the prospective sponsors, and the Court has determined
he lacks standing to contest any action or inaction by the Lieutenant Governor with
respect to the prospective sponsors’ application. Accordingly, the petition is
dismissed

FOR THE COURT

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fatthew B. Durrant
Chief Justice