CHOUDHRY v. FREE

Docket No. L.A. 30516.

17 Cal.3d 660 (1976)

552 P.2d 438

131 Cal. Rptr. 654

SAIDUL Z. CHOUDHRY et al., Petitioners, v. HARRY M. FREE, Individually and as County Clerk, etc., Respondent; IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DISTRICT et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

August 3, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

James E. Gonzales II, Ronald T. Vera, Albert H. Meyerhoff, Robert M. Teets, Jr., Richard Pearl and Fred Altshuler for Petitioners.

S. Wyanne Bunyan as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.

R.L. Knox, Jr., and Horton, Knox, Carter & Foote for Real Parties in Interest.

Kenneth A. Kuney and Berryhill, Kuney & Burckhardt as Amici Curiae.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

Section 21100 of the Water Code provides that the director of an irrigation district formed under the Irrigation District Law (Wat. Code, § 20500 et seq.)1 must be a freeholder of the district which he represents. Petitioner Choudhry, a potential candidate for director of the Imperial Irrigation District (hereinafter the district) at the...

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