STEPHENSON v. CITY OF PALM SPRINGS

Docket No. L.A. 24645.

52 Cal.2d 407 (1959)

340 P.2d 1009

WALTER L. STEPHENSON et al., Respondents, v. CITY OF PALM SPRINGS et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 26, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome J. Bunker, City Attorney, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter, Balthis & Hampton, George R. Richter, Jr., and Edwin H. Franzen for Appellants.

Severson, Davis & Larson, Nathan R. Berke, George Brunn, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and Marion B. Plant as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellants.

Lewis Garrett and Lionel Richman for Respondents.

Charles P. Scully and Victor Van Bourg as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.


SCHAUER, J.

Defendants, the city of Palm Springs and its chief of police, appeal from a judgment which permanently enjoins them from enforcing a "right-to-work" ordinance enacted by the Palm Springs city council on November 14, 1956.1 We have concluded that under the law as settled in Chavez v. Sargent (1959), ante, p. 162 [339 P.2d 801]...

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