Top court explains why it kept transgender-law challenge off ballot

[Natasha]

Top court explains why it kept transgender-law challenge off ballot

http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=10367&type=UTTM
12/23/2008


Just one vote on the state's highest court kept a challenge to
Montgomery County's new ban on discriminating against transgender
individuals off the ballot on Election Day.

Explaining its Sept. 9 order blocking the referendum attempt, the
Court of Appeals on Friday revealed its vote had been 4 to 3.

The majority said the law's opponents had not gathered enough valid
signatures to force a popular vote. The court also held the law's
backers had not waited too long to contest the Montgomery County Board
of Elections' decision to permit the referendum.