How have courts interpreted language in the wording of a voter-backed initiative?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Kelly, E063517 (Cal. App. 2016):
consider the initiative's language, giving the words their ordinary meaning and construing this language in the context of the statute and initiative as a whole. If the language is not ambiguous, we presume the voters intended the meaning apparent from that language, and we may not add to the statute or rewrite it to conform to some assumed intent not apparent from that language." (People v. Superior Court (Pearson) (2010) 48 Cal.4th 564, 571.)
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