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MOSK v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. L.A. 31140.

25 Cal.3d 474 (1979)

601 P.2d 1030

159 Cal. Rptr. 494

STANLEY MOSK, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL PERFORMANCE, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

October 18, 1979

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, Edward M. Medvene and Richard M. Mosk for Petitioner.

Ephraim Margolin, Richard J. Kohlman, Beauzay, Hammer, Ezgar, Bledsoe & Rucka, Victor H. Beauzay, Philip L. Hammer, Michael J. Ezgar, Robert T. Bledsoe, N. Michael Rucka, Stephen D. Sprenkle, Melvyn D. Silver, Emmett P. O'Boyle, Edward M. Suden, Louis H. Ginsberg, Alfred Lombardo, Paul E. Jacobs, Susan T. Levin, J. Andrew McKenna, Frederick L. Boyd, John A. Stonich and Ann E. Bailey as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Beardsley, Hufstedler & Kemble, Seth M. Hufstedler, John Sobieski, Burton J. Gindler, Peter O. Israel, Pierce O'Donnell and Evelyn Balderman for Real Party in Interest.

Gray, Cary, Ames & Frye, Josiah L. Neeper, Edward J. McIntyre, Jan S. Gonnerman, Lawrence W. Jordan, Jr., and Joanne M. Garvey as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.

OPINION

THE COURT.*

Associate Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk filed a petition for a writ of mandate, or other appropriate relief, in the Los Angeles County Superior Court to quash a subpoena ordering him to appear as a witness at a public hearing before the Commission on Judicial Performance (hereinafter the Commission), which is investigating possible judicial misconduct by one or more justices of...

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