The State - News from Aug. 9, 1988

A Sacramento Superior Court judge refused to strike from the November ballot Proposition 102, an AIDS Initiative sponsored by Rep. William Dannemeyer (R-Fullerton), turning aside arguments by an American Civil Liberties Union attorney that the initiative is “extremely bad public health policy.” The ACLU, in conjunction with the California Medical Assn. and the California Nurses Assn., challenged the initiative’s validity, maintaining that it violated the single subject rule and that the qualifying petitions contained misrepresentative wording. Attorney G. Lewis Chartrand Jr., who defended the initiative, said he was “ecstatic” with the judgment. Superior Court Judge Roger Warren is scheduled to decide another ACLU case Wednesday challenging the initiative on the basis that the ballot summary contains misleading wording.