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UPDATE: The Friday hearing referred to by anti-gay marriage activists will not occur. The judge has temporarily dismissed their motion to ban release of R-71 petitions, but they can re-file the request after the U.S. Supreme Court officially returns the case to the U.S. District Court in Tacoma.

Original post, with the new timing information added:

It's back to court again, as foes of last year's Referendum 71 renew a request that the petitions be sealed from public disclosure.

Election officials have completed a review of apparent fraud by a signature-gatherer who submitted 349 names on 20 petition sheets in support of Initiative 1098.

With the U.S. Senate and many, many great primaries shaping up, you certainly don't want to be left out.

Initiative 1098, a plan by Bill Gates Sr. and others to authorize an income tax on the wealthy and reduce some other taxes, is headed to the statewide ballot in Washington.

It's a bumper crop of initiatives apparently headed to the fall ballot. On Friday, the deadline day for submitting petitions, three more campaigns brought in hundreds of thousands of signatures.