FAIR POLITICAL PRACTICES COM. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. L.A. 30904.

25 Cal.3d 33 (1979)

599 P.2d 46

157 Cal. Rptr. 855

FAIR POLITICAL PRACTICES COMMISSION, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENTAL ADVOCATES et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

August 23, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Daniel H. Lowenstein, Robert M. Stern, Michael J. Baker and Lee C. Rosenthal for Petitioner.

Kenneth J. Guido, Jr., Roger Jon Diamond, Hecht, Diamond & Greenfield and John W. Black as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Iver E. Skjeie, Assistant Attorney General, Floyd D. Shimomura, Deputy Attorney General, Ball, Hunt, Hart, Brown & Baerwitz, John R. McDonough, Laurence F. Jay and Allan E. Tebbetts for Real Parties in Interest.

Ruth M. Simon, Margaret C. Crosby, Alan L. Schlosser and Amitai Schwartz as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

CLARK, J.

The Fair Political Practices Commission petitions for writ of mandate to compel respondent court to vacate a judgment enjoining enforcement of the Political Reform Act of 1974 (Gov. Code, § 81000 et seq.), an initiative measure.

We have stayed enforcement of the judgment except for paragraph 5, "That intervenor Fair Political Practices Commission ... [is] permanently...

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