Nevada Supreme Court strikes down effort to kill funding for MLB stadium in Las Vegas

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Nevada Supreme Court strikes down effort to kill funding for MLB stadium in Las Vegas
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Las Vegas supporters of bringing an MLB team to the city won a small victory with the state Supreme Court's ruling.

Supreme Court struck down a proposed ballot measure that would have allowed Nevadans to vote on repealing funding for a proposed, who saw this as the last attempt to halt the Oakland Athletics’s decision to move to Las Vegas. MLB owners have unanimously approved the team’s move to Las Vegas.

The state’s Supreme Court ruled that the filing for the ballot measure was “misleading” and “explains the general effect of a referendum, but it does not describe the practical effects of this specific referendum.”by the Schools over Stadiums political action committee, would have allowed voters to overturn a $380 million public financing deal that is set to fund a portion of a proposed $1.5 billion stadium.

The court said that the entire 66-page bill that funded the stadium must be included in the ballot question to provide full context to voters. Schools over Stadiums argued that because ballot measures can be no longer than 200 words, it made it difficult to provide its full context.Justices were split on the measure, with five voting in favor of striking it down, one dissenting, and one dissenting in part.

“The Stadium Referendum would withdraw state credit and financial support for the stadium project, which in turn could prevent the stadium from being built,” Pickering wrote. The ruling comes just 44 days from the petition signature deadline to get a referendum on the November ballot. Schools over Stadiums said it is committed to stopping the public funding of the stadium and will attempt to refile the petition next year.

“While we are organizing toward 2026, Schools Over Stadiums will continue to fund the constitutional challenge to Senate Bill 1,” Schools Over Stadiums said in a statement to the

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