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Missouri No Limit to Civil Lawsuit Damages Initiative (2022)
| Missouri No Limit to Civil Lawsuit Damages Initiative | |
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| Election date November 8, 2022 | |
| Topic Civil and criminal trials and Tort law | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Missouri No Limit to Civil Lawsuit Damages Initiative was not appear on the ballot in Missouri as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.
The amendment would have allowed judges and juries to award damages that they determine to be fair and would prohibit the limitation in factors to be considered in the calculation of damages. Triers may consider but are not limited to the following factors: pain, suffering, grief, and bereavement.[1][2]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title was as follows:[1]
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Do you want to amend the Missouri Constitution to allow judges and juries in a civil action or tort to award any amount (unlimited) they deem fair and just and have no limit to the factors to be considered in calculation of damages? State and local governmental entities estimate no savings and possible costs of an unknown amount that could be significant.[3] |
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Full text
The full text of the measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
Process in Missouri
In Missouri, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated constitutional amendment for the ballot is equal to 8 percent of the votes cast for governor in the previous gubernatorial election in six of the eight state congressional districts. Signatures must be filed with the secretary of state six months prior to the election.
The requirements to get an initiated constitutional amendment certified for the 2022 ballot:
- Signatures: The smallest possible requirement was 171,592 valid signatures. The actual requirement depends on the congressional districts in which signatures were collected.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was May 8, 2022.
Once the signatures have been filed with the secretary of state, the secretary copies the petition sheets and transmits them to county election authorities for verification. The secretary of state may choose whether the signatures are to be verified by a 5 percent random sample or full verification. If the random sampling projects between 90 percent and 110 percent of required signatures, a full check of all signatures is required. If more than 110 percent, the initiative is certified, and, if less than 90 percent, the initiative fails.
Stages of this initiative
Ryan Meyer filed the ballot initiative on January 15, 2020. On March 3, 2021, Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (R) cleared the initiative for signature gathering.[1]
This initiative did not meet the signature requirements by the May 8, 2022 deadline.[4]
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Missouri Secretary of State, "2022 Initiative Petitions Approved for Circulation in Missouri," accessed February 11, 2019
- ↑ Missouri Secretary of State, "Initiative text," accessed March 4, 2021
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Missouri Secretary of State, "2022 Initiative Petitions Approved for Circulation in Missouri," accessed May 9, 2022
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