LOS ANGELES COUNTY CIVIL SERVICE COM. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. L.A. 30878.

23 Cal.3d 55 (1978)

588 P.2d 249

151 Cal. Rptr. 547

LOS ANGELES COUNTY CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; LOS ANGELES COUNTY EMPLOYEES UNION, LOCAL 434, SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, AFL-CIO et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

December 29, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

John H. Larson, County Counsel, William F. Stewart, Joe Ben Hudgens and Steven L. Houston, Deputy County Counsel, for Petitioner.

John B. Clausen, County Counsel (Contra Costa), and Arthur W. Walenta, Jr., Assistant County Counsel, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Geffner & Satzman and Leo Geffner for Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

NEWMAN, J.

In this case we must reconcile two sections of the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (MMBA).1 Section 3500 declares that the MMBA shall not supersede local charters, ordinances, and rules that establish civil service systems or other methods of administering employer-employee relations.2 Section 3505 requires governing bodies of local agencies or their properly designated...

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