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Poll taxes became a tool of disenfranchisement in the South during Jim Crow, following the end of Reconstruction. Payment of a poll tax was a prerequisite to the registration for voting in a number of states until 1965. The tax emerged in some states of the United States in the late nineteenth century as part of the Jim Crow laws.
In 2002, a California appellate court held that an in-lieu franchise fee for water, sewer, and refuse collection services was a "property-related" fee subject to Article XIII D. [141] Also in 2002, another California appellate court held that a stormwater drainage fee imposed on developed parcels was a "property-related" fee subject Article ...
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It had been the most expensive election in California history. [6] As the results came out in Sacramento a public union boss waived a broom over his head while state employees chanted “sweep, sweep, sweep”. [7] SEIU's use of compulsory fees on nonmembers to fund its campaign was later found illegal by the U.S. Supreme Court in Knox v.
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24 – Removed from ballot by order of the California Supreme Court. Proposed proposition concerned legislative pay and travel expenses, as well as a financial penalty to be assessed if lawmakers did not pass the annual budget in a timely manner. Deemed to violate the single subject clause of the California Constitution
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