REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF FRESNO v. BUCKMAN

Docket No. S.F. 22017.

64 Cal.2d 886 (1966)

413 P.2d 856

50 Cal. Rptr. 912

REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF FRESNO, Petitioner, v. KARL BUCKMAN, as Chairman, etc., Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

May 10, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lerrigo, Thuesen & Thompson, Frank C. Lerrigo, Maurice E. Smith, McDonough, Holland, Schwartz, Allen & Wahrhaftig, Martin McDonough, Bruce F. Allen and Joseph E. Coomes, Jr., for Petitioner.

Eugene B. Jacobs, Henry F. Davis, Carlson, Collins, Gordon & Bold, Frederick Bold, Jr., John F. Duff, Richard G. Logan, Cyril A. Coyle, James S. DeMartini, Thomas Arata, William J. Bush, Peter J. Donnici, James T. McDonald, Richard B. Morris, Richard A. Bancroft, Jack Greenberg, Robert M. O'Neil, Joseph B. Robison, Sol Rabkin, Duane B. Beeson, Seymour Farber, Robert H. Laws, Jr., Howard Nemerovski, John G. Clancy, and Ephraim Margolin as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

Peckinpah, Fryer & Karr, Kenneth J. Fryer and Richard W. Nichols for Respondent.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, William French Smith, Samuel O. Pruitt, Jr., and Charles S. Battles, Jr., as Amici Curiae.


PEEK, J.

The Redevelopment Agency of the City of Fresno seeks a writ of mandate to compel its chairman to enter into and execute on behalf of the agency a contract with the United States government for a loan and grant to the agency in excess of $6,000,000 for the redevelopment of a blighted area in that city.

The offer of loan and grant has been extended by the United States government, through the Housing and Home Finance Administrator, subject to compliance...

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