LEGISLATURE v. REINECKE

Docket Nos. Sac. 7917, 7919, 7923.

10 Cal.3d 396 (1973)

516 P.2d 6

110 Cal. Rptr. 718

LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA et al., Petitioners, v. ED REINECKE, as Lieutenant Governor, etc., et al., Respondents. EDMUND G. BROWN, JR., as Secretary of State, etc., Petitioner, v. RONALD REAGAN, as Governor, etc., Respondent. THIRTY TWO MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Petitioners, v. RONALD REAGAN, as Governor, etc., et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

November 28, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

George H. Murphy, Legislative Counsel, Clinton J. deWitt, Deputy Legislative Counsel, and Herman F. Selvin for Petitioners in No. 7917.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Daniel Hays Lowenstein and Philip Neumark for Petitioner in No. 7919 and for Respondent Secretary of State in Nos. 7917 and 7923.

Wyman, Bautzer, Rothman & Kuchel, Thomas H. Kuchel and Frank Rothman for Petitioners in No. 7923.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Robert Burton, Assistant Attorney General, and J.M. Sanderson, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent in No. 7919 and for certain Respondents in Nos. 7917 and 7923.

John V. Diepenbrock for Respondent Lieutenant Governor.

Robert S. Daggett, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, Richards, Watson & Dreyfuss, Glenn R. Watson, Robert N. Joehnck, Halley & Cornell, James W. Halley, David J. Levy, City Attorney (Pinole and Concord), James P. O'Drain, City Attorney (Richmond), Samuel V. McGrath, Deputy City Attorney, LaFollette, Johnson, Horgan & Robinson, James Dexter Clark, Chinello, Chinello & Maddy, Kenneth L. Maddy, Frank J. Pagliaro, Jr., Seth M. Hufstedler, John L. Burton, Putnam Livermore, Tinning & Delap, Austin R. Gibbons, David E. Schricker, City Attorney (Redwood City), John J. Gottes, City Attorney (South Gate), John Philip Coghlan, John D. Maharg, County Counsel (Los Angeles), Edward H. Gaylord, Assistant County Counsel, Ray T. Sullivan, Jr., County Counsel (Riverside), Richard W. Dickenson, County Counsel (San Joaquin), Monroe N. Langdon, City Attorney (Stockton), Paul F. Mordy, Assistant City Attorney, Theodore R. Bresler, Deputy City Attorney, Keith C. Sorenson, District Attorney (San Mateo), James M. Parmelee, Deputy City Attorney, James M. Himmel, Cruz Reynoso, Peter Schilla, Peter H. Weiner, Lucy K. McCabe, Stanley Levy, Bruce Warner, Michael D. Saphier, Mario Obledo, Herman Sillas, Joe Ortega, Roberto Rabago, Armand Derfner, Royal M. Sorensen, City Attorney (Downey), Burke, Williams & Sorensen, Loren Miller, Jr., Dion G. Morrow, William T. Bagley, Arthur V. Azevedo, Gant & Asaro, Steven R. Jones, John J. Miller, Nathaniel S. Colley, Paul N. McCloskey, Jr., Gerald J. Lewis, City Attorney (Coronado), Robert W. Naylor, Erwin, Anderholt & Scherotter, J. John Anderholt, Albert E. Polonsky, Dawley, George & Holt, John George, Michael J. Halliwell, James P. Botz, County Counsel (Sonoma), Paul T. Bannai, Joseph W. Rainville, City Attorney (Glendale), Peter C. Wright, Deputy City Attorney, Reid, Babbage & Coil, John D. Babbage, James H. Harmon, County Counsel (Imperial), Byrd, Sturdevant, Nassif, McDaniel & Pinney, William Byrd, Charles F. Sturdevant, Jr., George N. Zenovich, John W. Holmdahl, Milton Marks, Lawrence E. Walsh, George W. Wakefield, Bernhard O'Connor, Frank Lanterman, John L.E. Collier, Mike D. Antonovich, Victor Veysey, Daniel V. Blackstock, Richard Wittenberg, Ignazio A. Vella, Henry J. Riboni, Gregory Jones, Jr., John A. Van Ryn, Stephen Reinhardt and Rudolph Dias on behalf of other interested parties.


OPINION

WRIGHT, C.J.

In these mandate proceedings we are called upon to resolve the impasse created by the continuing failure of the Legislature to pass legislative and congressional reapportionment bills acceptable to the Governor.1

Our first opinion herein was filed on January 18, 1972, when we adopted temporary apportionment plans for the 1972 elections...

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