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PRICE v. CIVIL SERVICE COM.

Docket No. S.F. 23836.

26 Cal.3d 257 (1980)

604 P.2d 1365

161 Cal. Rptr. 475

JOHN M. PRICE, as District Attorney, etc., Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION OF SACRAMENTO COUNTY et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

January 25, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

John B. Heinrich and L.B. Elam, County Counsel, and Thomas A. Darling, Deputy County Counsel, for Defendants and Appellants.

Stephen Kosta, Peter E. Sheehan, Clifford C. Sweet, Alice M. Beasley, John H. Erickson, David A. Gerber, Dale L. Gronemeier, Paul L. Hoffman, Margaret C. Crosby, Alan L. Schlosser, Amatai Schwartz, Fred Okrand, Mark R. Rosenbaum, Terry Smerling, Thomas A. Seaton, Mark Aaronson and Nathaniel S. Colley as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

John M. Price and Herb Jackson, District Attorneys, and Roger M. Miller, Deputy District Attorney, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Patricia Green, Arnold Forster, Jeffrey Sinensky, Mark S. Rudy, Allan Yannow, Edwin L. Miller, Jr., District Attorney (San Diego), Peter C. Lehman and Paul M. Morley, Deputy District Attorneys, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

TOBRINER, J.

In this case we must determine whether a governmental entity may voluntarily adopt a race-conscious, affirmative action hiring program of limited duration to alleviate an underrepresentation of minority employees which the entity finds is attributable to its own past discriminatory employment practices.

The trial court in this action enjoined the County of Sacramento from implementing such a remedial hiring...

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