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Missouri Judge Strikes Down Attempted Ban On Equal Opportunity Programs

By ACLU

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JEFFERSON CITY, MO ? A Missouri circuit court judge late Friday struck down a proposed ballot initiative aimed at amending the state's constitution to outlaw equal opportunity programs in the state. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit last December charging that an anti-affirmative action ballot initiative proposed by Timothy Asher and the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative should not be circulated for signatures because it violates the Missouri Constitution by seeking to trick and defraud the state's voters in attempting to ban an array of equal opportunity programs.

Full post as published by ACLU Newsroom on June 27, 2009 (boomark / email).

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