Court Opinion

ID: 9537913
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 07:27:02.622551+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:57:10.740068
License: Public Domain

McALLISTER, J.,
specially concurring.
The preparation of a ballot title pursuant to Chapter 364, Oregon Laws 1967, is either a legislative or an executive function. The drafting of a ballot title by this court would be the exercise by the judicial department of a function of another department of government. This court is prohibited by the express language of the constitution from exercising a legislative or executive function and the same language prohibits the legislature from imposing a legislative or executive function upon the court. I prefer to rest our decision on the separation of powers doctrine and therefore concur in the result of the majority opinion.