March 21st, 2025
Judge Widlan found that the BIAW and Heywood’s Initiative 2066 violates Article II, Section 19 and Article II, Section 37 of the Washington State Constitution, granting a nonprofit-led coalition of plaintiffs represented by Pacifica Law Group summary judgment against the measure.
Keep readingJune 7th, 2024
Judge Zipp offered a lengthy, thoughtful verbal ruling from the bench, methodically demolishing the plaintiffs’ arguments. She denied plaintiffs’ motion for writs of prohibition and mandate requested by Walsh and his co-plaintiff Deanna Martinez to stop voters from receiving the information they’re legally entitled to have.
Keep readingJune 5th, 2024
All of us should be able to understand what we’re voting on. Concealing critical information about what a proposed law would do from voters is wrong. Appalling. Disgraceful.
Keep readingDecember 6th, 2022
Read NPI’s statement concerning the Court of Appeals’ holding in Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s main campaign finance enforcement lawsuit against Tim Eyman.
Keep readingAugust 5th, 2022
The pending resolution of the bankruptcy will not liberate Tim Eyman from the penalties he incurred as a result of his stonewalling in the extreme legal strategy, or the judgment assessed against him by Thurston County Superior Court Judge James Dixon in the Attorney General’s main campaign finance enforcement case.
Keep readingFebruary 10th, 2021
“Tim Eyman has been fined before. He has been found guilty of violations of Chapter 42.17A RCW before. But he has never been held accountable like this,” said NPI’s founder Andrew Villeneuve.
Keep readingFebruary 10th, 2021
During his more than twenty years of political involvement, initiative promoter and failed gubernatorial candidate Tim Eyman has consistently tried to conceal the extent of his fundraising and electioneering from the public, in flagrant violation of RCW Chapter 42.17A, the public disclosure law that voters originally approved by initiative back in the 1970s.
Keep readingOctober 15th, 2020
Tim Eyman’s Initiative 976 has been ruled unconstitutional by the Washington State Supreme Court, in a huge victory for freedom of mobility and truth in ballot titles.
Keep readingOctober 14th, 2020
Read this primer to get a better understanding of Garfield County Transportation Authority, et al. v. State of WA, et al., the legal challenge to Tim Eyman’s Initiative 976.
Keep readingJune 30th, 2020
Read NPI’s statement thanking the plaintiffs and their attorneys for a job well done making the case against Tim Eyman’s initiative to wipe out funding for multimodal transportation infrastructure. The case is now submitted and a final decision is expected from the Supreme Court in the fall of 2020.
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