Superior Court Judge Chris Lanese denied open government activist Arthur West’s request to amend the disclosure statement or remove it from the ballot. That decision abruptly ended a separate legal fight over the statement’s content set to play out in front of a different judge Friday. Lanese also rejected West’s request for a preliminary injunction to block the law requiring public investment statements for certain ballot measures. Initiative 645 would repeal the 9.9% tax on individual and household wage income above $1 million a year that Gov. It would be “both inaccurate and misleading to voters” to say the tax is directed to certain uses, she said.