JARVIS v. CORY

Docket No. S.F. 24047.

28 Cal.3d 562 (1980)

620 P.2d 598

170 Cal. Rptr. 11

HOWARD JARVIS, Petitioner, v. KENNETH CORY, as State Controller, et al., Respondents. ARMIN BRODTY et al., Petitioners, v. KENNETH CORY, as State Controller, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

December 18, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Kaplanis & Grimm, Trevor A. Grimm, Schurmer, Drane, Bullis & McCarthy, Walter H. Drane, Lynn S. Carman and George R. Beavin for Petitioners.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Richard D. Martland, Assistant Attorney General, Talmadge R. Jones, George J. Roth, Susan J. Orton, Deputy Attorneys General, Loren E. McMaster and Bernard L. Allamano for Respondents.

Van Bourg, Allen, Weinberg & Roger, David Rosenfield, Stewart Weinberg, Ruth Benson and David E. Feller as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent California State Employees Association.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

In these consolidated cases petitioners Jarvis and Brodty seek writs of mandate declaring a salary appropriation bill unconstitutional and ordering respondent State Controller (Cory) to refrain from expending any funds pursuant to the bill. We must decide whether Senate Bill No. 91, 1979 Regular Session (SB 91), which awards a lump sum payment to certain state employees based on work already performed, violates provisions...

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