CASTORENA v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES

Docket No. 41084.

34 Cal.App.3d 901 (1973)

110 Cal. Rptr. 569

PIO C. CASTORENA et al., Petitioners, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Five.

October 29, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Robert H. Perez, Arthur A. Corrales, Thomas Stanley, Armand Derfner, Mario Obledo, Miguel Garcia, Joe Ortega, Herman Sillas, Stanley Wm. Levy, Stanton L. Stein, Bruce Warner, Michael D. Saphier, Lawrence William Steinberg, Rudolph A. Diaz, Vilma S. Martinez, Sanford J. Rosen, Charles Nabarrete and Richard V. Cruz for Petitioners.

Laurence R. Sperber and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Burt Pines and Roger Arnebergh, City Attorneys, Thomas C. Bonaventura, Assistant City Attorney and Thomas J. Theis, Deputy City Attorney, for Respondent.


OPINION

KAUS, P.J.

In this original proceeding for a writ of mandate, petitioners seek to enjoin the City of Los Angeles ("City") from using a councilmanic redistricting plan adopted in September 1972. They also ask that we order the City to adopt a redistricting plan proposed by petitioners or any other "constitutionally valid reapportionment plan." We granted an alternative writ in...

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