Tuesday, June 26, 2012 | 3:08 p.m.
After a decision that did more to confuse than clarify whether Caesars Entertainment's arena initiative can go on the ballot, the state Supreme Court has grabbed the case back from a lower court and appears poised to decide whether it goes on the ballot.
In an order filed today — and posted at right — the justices responded to a request by Secretary of State Ross Miller, named as a defendant in the case, for the high court to rehear the case. According to the order, the justices will consider whether to rehear arguments that a state law saying any change in a petition's description of effect — which the court ordered — invalidates the signatures and thus the petition. The original order had seemed straightforward — an evisceration of the description of effect -- until a footnote that said the initiative shall still go on the ballot.
So now: The do-over.
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