CITY OF SANTA BARBARA v. ADAMSON

Docket No. L.A. 31126.

27 Cal.3d 123 (1980)

610 P.2d 436

164 Cal. Rptr. 539

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. BEVERLY ADAMSON et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

May 15, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Meaney & Bycel, Benjamin Bycel and Bruce William Plebuch for Defendants and Appellants.

William A. Resneck, Reed & Resneck, Fred Okrand, Mark O. Rosenbaum and Terry Smerling as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Frederick W. Clough, City Attorney, Anthony C. Fischer, Assistant City Attorney, and James O. Kahan, Deputy City Attorney, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Burt Pines, City Attorney (Los Angeles), Claude E. Hilker and William B. Burge, Assistant City Attorneys, Ann Hayes, Deputy City Attorney, Robert W. Parkin, City Attorney (Long Beach), Arthur Y. Honda, Deputy City Attorney, Donald S. Greenberg, City Attorney (San Buenaventura), Elwyn L. Johnson, City Attorney (Modesto), George D. Lindberg, City Attorney (Chula Vista), William C. Marsh, City Attorney (Monterey), Stanley E. Remelmeyer, City Attorney (Torrance), James M. Ruddick, City Attorney (Marysville), Robert R. Wellington, City Attorney (Marina, Del Rey Oaks), John W. Witt, City Attorney (San Diego), and D. Dwight Worden, City Attorney (Del Mar), as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

NEWMAN, J.

"All people ... have inalienable rights", proclaims the California Constitution in the first sentence of article I. The second sentence reads: "Among these [inalienable rights] are enjoying ... life and liberty, ... possessing ... property, and pursuing and obtaining ... happiness, and privacy."1

Appellants argue that Santa Barbara and the trial court have violated those rights...

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