WEAVER v. JORDAN

Docket No. Sac. 7682.

64 Cal.2d 235 (1966)

411 P.2d 289

49 Cal. Rptr. 537

S.L. WEAVER et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. FRANK M. JORDAN, as Secretary of State, etc., Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

March 2, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Charles A. Barrett, Assistant Attorney General, and James Ganulin, Deputy Attorney General, for Defendant and Appellant.

Loeb & Loeb and Herman F. Selvin as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Nossaman, Waters, Scott, Krueger & Riordan, William L. Scott, Allan Browne and Hughes, Hubbard, Blair & Reed for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

O'Melveny & Myers, Pierce Works, William D. Moore, James D. Lorenz, Jr., Marshall W. Krause, Robert M. O'Neil and Melvin L. Wulf as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.


BURKE, J.

Defendant appeals from an adverse judgment in a declaratory relief action which attacks as unconstitutional an initiative measure adopted by the electorate at the November 1964 general election, and entitled by its proponents and draftsmen the "Free Television Act" (hereinafter "the Act"). Designated as Proposition 15 on the ballot, the Act undertakes to ban in California the business of home subscription television...

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