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CURTIS v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Docket No. L.A. 29873.

7 Cal.3d 942 (1972)

501 P.2d 537

104 Cal. Rptr. 297

GORDON M. CURTIS, JR., et al., Petitioners, v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

September 19, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Richards, Watson & Dreyfuss and James K. Herbert for Petitioners.

John D. Maharg, County Counsel, David D. Mix and Edward H. Gaylord, Assistant County Counsel, Joe B. Hudgens and Douglas V. Hart, Deputy County Counsel, O'Melveny & Myers, Bennett W. Priest, Richard P. Volpert, Thomas H. Childers, Lowell C. Martindale, Patrick Lynch and James V. Selna for Respondents.

OPINION

TOBRINER, J.

When persons owning a majority of assessed valuation of land within the proposed City of Rancho Palos Verdes filed a written protest, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, pursuant to Government Code section 34311, refused to call an incorporation election. The crux of petitioners' plea to us is that section 34311 violates the Constitution; upon this basis they...

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