Steven WHITE, Plaintiff and Appellant,
v.
Gray DAVIS, as Governor, etc., et al., Defendants and Respondents.
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents,
v.
Steve Westly, as Controller, etc., Defendant and Appellant; California State Employees Association, Local 1000, SEIU, AFL-CIO, CLC, et al., Interveners and Appellants.
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May 1, 2003.
May 1, 2003.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Law Offices of Richard I. Fine & Associates, Richard I. Fine, Beverly Hills, Jeremy W. Faith, Los Angeles, Genalin Sulat, Carmela Tan, Los Angeles, Cheri M. Vu; Jonathan M. Coupal, Sacramento, and Trevor A. Grimm, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Appellant and for Plaintiffs and Respondents.
Daniel E. Lungren and Bill Lockyer, Attorneys General, Manuel M. Medeiros, State Solicitor General, Linda A. Cabatic and Andrea Lynn Hoch, Assistant Attorneys General, Louis R. Mauro, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Paul H. Dobson, Keith Yamanaka and Jennifer K. Rockwell, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Appellant and for Defendants and Respondents Gray Davis et al.
Bion M. Gregory, Richard Thomson, Sacramento; Eisen & Johnston Law Corporation and Marian M. Johnston, Sacramento, for Defendants and Respondents Bill Lockyer, Cruz M. Bustamante, Rob Hurtt and Curt Pringle.
Anne M. Giese, Gary P. Reynolds, Daniel S. Connolly, Sacramento, and Michael D. Hersh, for Interveners and Appellants Gary Gavinski and California State Employees Association, Local 1000, SEIU, AFL-CIO, CLC.
Dennis F. Moss, for Interveners and Appellants Professional Engineers in California Government and California Association of Professional Scientists.
Benjamin C. Sybesma, West Sacramento, Christine Albertine, Rancho Cucamonga, and Joel H. Levinson, West Sacramento, for Intervener and Appellant California Correctional Peace Officers' Association.
Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, Ronald Yank, San Francisco, Gary M. Messing, Sacramento, Laurie J. Hepler and Cathleen A. Williams for Intervener and Appellant California Union of Safety Employees.
Lynn S. Carman; Steinberg & Steinberg, Lawrence William Steinberg and Anita Steinberg, Santa Monica, for Interveners and Appellants Jerome Feitelberg and Alameda Drug Company, Inc.
David P. Lampkin, Los Angeles, R. Clayton Seaman, Jr., Jeralyn Keller, Pasadena, and Jonathan P. Milberg, for California Appellate Defense Counsel as Amici Curiae.
Lynn S. Carman, for Frederick S. Mayer as Amicus Curiae.
Supreme Court of California.
GEORGE, C.J.
Article IV, section 12 of the California Constitution provides in part that "[t]he Legislature shall pass the budget bill by midnight on June 15 of each year," but in recent years the timely adoption of the budget bill in California has proven to be the exception, rather than the rule. This proceeding arises out of two taxpayer actions that were filed in the wake of budget impasses that occurred in 1997...
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