BLUE STAR LINE v. CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO

Docket No. 39195.

77 Cal.App.3d 429 (1978)

143 Cal. Rptr. 647

BLUE STAR LINE, INC., et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Defendant and Respondent. HOEGH-UGLAND AUTO LINERS et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Defendant and Respondent.

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

February 8, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Graham & James, F. Conger Fawcett and David C. Nolan for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Thomas M. O'Connor and George Agnost, City Attorneys, and John J. Doherty, Deputy City Attorney, for Defendant and Respondent.


OPINION

RATTIGAN, J.

Respondent City and County of San Francisco levies a tax upon the payrolls of employers who conduct business within its territorial limits. In two actions brought against it by appellants and other plaintiffs, they asserted the claim that various provisions of the United States Constitution invalidated the levy, as to them, because their local business activity engaged them in maritime foreign commerce at the...

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