CLEARY v. COUNTY OF ALAMEDA

No. A127935.

196 Cal.App.4th 826 (2011)

JANET CLEARY et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. COUNTY OF ALAMEDA et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

May 26, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard E. Winnie , County Counsel, and Jannie L. Wong , Deputy County Counsel, for Defendants and Appellants.

Judith Z. Gold , Stephen Ronfeldt , Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Grace A. Carter , Bay Area Legal Aid and Steven Weiss , for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Matthew L. Larrabee , Muriel M. Korol , and Steven G. Kalnoki , for Coalition of California Welfare Rights Organizations, Homeless Action Center and Legal Services of Northern California as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Shearman & Sterling and James Donato for The California Tax Reform Association and The Asian Law Alliance as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.


CERTIFIED FOR PARTIAL PUBLICATION*

OPINION

HAERLE, J.

I. INTRODUCTION

The trial court issued a writ of mandate which prohibits the County of Alameda (the County)1 from implementing a change to its General Assistance (GA) program. That planned change, which we will refer to herein as the "W-9 policy," would reduce the amount of a GA recipient's monthly...

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