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PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC CO. v. CITY OF BERKELEY

Docket No. 37475.

60 Cal.App.3d 123 (1976)

131 Cal. Rptr. 350

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CITY OF BERKELEY, Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

July 15, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Donald P. McCullum, City Attorney, Michael Lawson, Chief Deputy City Attorney, Lois L. Johnson, Deputy City Attorney, Susan Watkins, Assistant City Attorney and Charles O. Triebel, Jr., for Defendants and Appellants.

Malcolm A. MacKillop, Richard A. Clarke, Robert L. Harris, James A. Kaylor, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Edwin A. Heafey, Jr., Peter W. Davis and Timothy J. Murphy for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

ROUSE, J.

This action involves a constitutional attack by plaintiff, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (hereinafter "PG&E") upon section 605 of the Berkeley Election Reform Act of 1974. That section prohibits any "proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, company, corporation, or labor union" from making a contribution to "any candidate or committee." Elsewhere in the act, the word "committee...

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