SILVER v. BROWN

Docket Nos. Sac. 7679, 7681.

63 Cal.2d 841 (1966)

409 P.2d 689

48 Cal. Rptr. 609

PHILL SILVER et al., Petitioners, v. EDMUND G. BROWN, as Governor, etc., et al., Respondents; THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA et al., Interveners. PHILIP ADAMS et al., Petitioners, v. EDMUND G. BROWN, as Governor, etc., et al., Respondents; THE ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA et al., Interveners. (Consolidated Cases.)

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

January 11, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phill Silver, in pro. per., for Petitioners in Sac. No. 7679.

Philip Adams, Edward Napier Thomson and Roland Adickes, in pro. per., for Petitioners in Sac. No. 7681.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Charles A. Barrett, Assistant Attorney General, and Sanford N. Gruskin, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondents in Sac. No. 7679.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Charles A. Barrett, Assistant Attorney General, Sanford N. Gruskin, Deputy Attorney General, and Herman F. Selvin for Respondents in Sac. No. 7681.

Musick, Peeler & Garrett, Gerald G. Kelly, Richard T. Apel, William J. Emanuel, Bruce A. Bevan, Jr., Herman F. Selvin, Adrian Kuyper, County Counsel (Orange), Seymour S. Pizer, Assistant County Counsel, Woodruff J. Deem, District Attorney (Ventura), Paul L. McKaskle, Deputy District Attorney, Conrad G. Tuohey and Dannemeyer, Gustaveson & Tuohey for Interveners in Sac. No. 7679.

Phill Silver, in pro. per., Musick, Peeler & Garrett, Gerald G. Kelly, Richard T. Apel, William J. Emanuel, Adrian Kuyper, County Counsel (Orange), Seymour S. Pizer, Assistant County Counsel, Woodruff J. Deem, District Attorney (Ventura), Paul L. McKaskle, Deputy District Attorney, Garry, Dreyfus & McTernan, Benjamin Dreyfus, Donald P. McCullum, Conrad G. Tuohey and Dannemeyer, Gustaveson & Tuohey for Interveners in Sac. No. 7681.

Edward Napier Thomson, in pro. per., Gerald N. Hill, Gabriel Solomon, and John W. Scanlon, City Attorney (Hayward), as Amici Curiae in Sac. No. 7681.

James L. Blawie, Albert Dehr and Putnam Livermore as Amici Curiae in Sac. Nos. 7679 and 7681.


TRAYNOR, C.J.

In these proceedings petitioners sought writs of mandate to secure reapportionment of both houses of the Legislature. In an opinion filed September 1, 1965 (Silver v. Brown, ante, p. 270 [46 Cal.Rptr. 308, 405 P.2d 132]), we held that under the decisions of the United States Supreme Court the existing apportionments of both the Senate and the Assembly were invalid...

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