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BLAIR v. PITCHESS

Docket No. L.A. 29848.

5 Cal.3d 258 (1971)

486 P.2d 1242

96 Cal. Rptr. 42

CLEVE BLAIR et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. PETER PITCHESS, as Sheriff, etc., et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

July 1, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

John D. Maharg, County Counsel, and Robert C. Lynch, Assistant County Counsel, for Defendants and Appellants.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, John L. Endicott, Leland, Hoffman, Kalik, & Goldstein, N. Stanley Leland, Robert D. Raven, Paul E. Homrighausen, Morrison, Foerster, Holloway, Clinton & Clark, Severson, Werson, Berke & Melchior, James B. Werson, Bernardus J. Smit, Styskal, Wiese & Colman, Alvin O. Wiese, Jr., O'Melveny & Myers, Homer I. Mitchell, Girard E. Boudreau, Jr., Stanley H. Williams, Ross L. Malone, James M. Conners and Vernon D. Stokes as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Charles E. Jones, Michael Henry Shapiro, Stanton J. Price, Ronald L. Sievers and William T. Rintala for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

OPINION

SULLIVAN, J.

In this case we are called upon to determine whether California's claim and delivery law (Code Civ. Proc., §§ 509-521)1 violates the Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and sections 13 and 19 of article I of the Constitution of the State of California.

Originally enacted in 1872, the claim and delivery law establishes a

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