A South Dakota judge dismissed a lawsuit filed in June by an anti-abortion group that targeted a rejected abortion rights measure. Judge John Pekas dismissed the case at the request of the anti-abortion group Life Defense.
Voters rejected Amendment G with 59% casting a ‘no’ ballot during the election. Life Defense Fund’s lawsuit had challenged petitions that got the measure on the ballot, saying they contained invalid signatures and circulators committed fraud and various wrongdoing. The anti-abortion group sought to invalidate the ballot initiative and bar the measure group and its workers from doing ballot-measure work for four years.