Florida’s Supreme Court has shut down a marijuana campaign’s appeal that sought judicial intervention to restore tens of thousands of signatures that the state invalidated for a legalization ballot initiative.
After Smart & Safe Florida submitted the appeal last month, the court on Monday said it was declining to review the petition over 71,000 invalidated signatures and that “no motion for rehearing will be entertained.”
The latest ruling comes after the court agreed to close a separate case involving a legal review into the ballot measure.
The state’s First District Court of Appeal submitted a notice to invoke discretionary jurisdiction and notice of appeal to the Florida Supreme Court last month, opening back up the possibility that voters could decide on legalization at the polls later this year. But that was contingent on justices accepting the case and the campaign prevailing, which did not come to fruition.
“This cause having heretofore been submitted to the Court on jurisdictional briefs and portions of the record deemed necessary to reflect jurisdiction under Article V, Section 3(b), Florida Constitution, and the Court having determined that it should decline to accept jurisdiction, it is ordered that the petition for review is denied,” the court
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