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WESTBROOK v. MIHALY

Docket Nos. S.F. 22706, 22707.

2 Cal.3d 765 (1970)

471 P.2d 487

87 Cal. Rptr. 839

ELOUISE WESTBROOK et al., Petitioners, v. EMMERY MIHALY, as Registrar of Voters, etc., et al., Respondents. STEPHEN ADAMS, Petitioner, v. EMMERY MIHALY, as Registrar of Voters, etc., et al., Respondents. (Two Cases.)

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 30, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Stephen Adams, in pro. per., Adams & Adams, Philip Adams, Joseph L. Alioto, Peter J. Donnici, Lawrence E. Alioto and Joseph M. Alioto for Petitioners.

Paul N. Halvonik and Charles C. Marson as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners in Nos. 22706 and 22707.

Donald L. Ungar as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioners in No. 22706.

Thomas M. O'Connor, City Attorney, and Thomas J. Blanchard, Chief Deputy City Attorney, for Respondents.

Wilson, Jones, Morton & Lynch, Ernest A. Wilson, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Francis R. Kirkham, Francis N. Marshall and Noble K. Gregory as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.

OPINION

SULLIVAN, J.

We are presented in these cases with a common issue: whether that portion of former article XI, section 18 (present art. XIII, § 40) of the California Constitution which requires that general obligation bond proposals of counties, cities and school districts be approved by a two-thirds majority of the voters in a popular referendum violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United...

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