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EDELSTEIN v. CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO

No. S102530.

126 Cal.Rptr.2d 727 (2002)

29 Cal.4th 164

56 P.3d 1029

Michael EDELSTEIN et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Defendant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

November 7, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Michael Schaefer, Las Vegas, NV, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Dennis J. Herrera and Louise H. Renne, City Attorneys, Therese M. Stewart, Chief Deputy City Attorney, Thomas J. Owen, Randy Riddle, Ellen Forman, and K. Scott Dickey, Deputy City Attorneys, for Defendant and Respondent.

Rockard J. Delgadillo, City Attorney (Los Angeles), Patricia V. Tubert Claudia Culling and Anthony Saul Alperin, Assistant City Attorneys, for Cities of Los Angeles, Monterey and Redlands as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.

BROWN, J.

The question presented by this case is whether former section 13.102 of article XIII of the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco (repealed Mar. 5, 2000; hereafter section 13.102), by prohibiting write-in voting in runoff elections for municipal offices, violated the free speech clause of the California Constitution (art. I, § 2, subd. (a)). We conclude it did not.

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