ANDERSON v. PHILLIPS

Docket No. S.F. 23244.

13 Cal.3d 733 (1975)

532 P.2d 1247

119 Cal. Rptr. 879

CARL WEST ANDERSON, Petitioner, v. GEORGE W. PHILLIPS, JR., as Presiding Judge, etc., et al., Respondents; EDMUND G. BROWN, JR., as Governor, etc., Intervener.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

March 14, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Edwin A. Heafey, Jr., Peter W. Davis and Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May for Petitioner.

Richard J. Moore, County Counsel, and James E. Jefferis, Assistant County Counsel, for Respondents.

Thomas Schneider and Sally Laidlaw as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Iver E. Skjeie, Assistant Attorney General, and Richard C. Creeggan, Deputy Attorney General, for Intervener.


OPINION

THE COURT.

Petitioner, having been appointed to fill a vacancy in an office of the Superior Court for the County of Alameda, seeks a writ of mandate to compel respondents, the presiding judge of the superior court and the superior court itself, to assign judicial duties to him. By leave of the court, the Governor has been permitted to intervene. (Code Civ. Proc., § 387.)

We have concluded that although petitioner...

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