In previous California Politics Today articles entitled "Dana Cody, executive director, Life Legal Defense Foundation, explains its anti-Proposition 71 lawsuit," published on February 26, 2005, and "Dana Cody, LLDF attorney in ICOC constitutionality case, clarifies the process, calls Proposition 71 "a money grab" and "a hoax," published on February 28, 2005, Ms. Cody explained the points of law and facts that she says amount to an unconstitutional delegation of state authority and taxpayer money to the Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee (ICOC), which was given $3 billion in state bond money to spend on bio-medical research under the terms of Proposition 71, which was passed with more than 59% of the vote last November.
Ms. Cody spoke again today with California Politics Today in response to the hours-old decision by the California Supreme Court, where this case was originally filed, not to hear the case but instead to suggest that it be re-filed in California Superior Court, presumably in Sacramento.

You can hear her update on the case in its entirety by clicking here.

You can take a look at the press release issued this afternoon in the wake of the California Supreme Court's decision not to rule on the case from the Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee (ICOC) for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), both of which were set up as a result of the passage of Proposition 71, in which ICOC Chair Robert Klein says that "We would have preferred for the California Supreme Court to rule on this litigation, but the Institute will now consider its options and take prompt action on an alternative plan" by clicking here.

To listen to a conversation with Calvin Massey, law professor at Hastings College of the Law, about Article XVI, Section 3, of the California Constitution, which, on its face at least, prohibits spending state money by any institution "not under the exclusive management and control of the State as a state institution," as the suit brought by Ms. Cody alleges is the case with the ICOC, click here.