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OLSON v. CORY

Docket No. L.A. 31142.

27 Cal.3d 532 (1980)

636 P.2d 532

178 Cal. Rptr. 568

LESTER E. OLSON et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. KENNETH CORY, as State Controller, et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

March 27, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Howard, Prim, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady & Pollak, Jerome B. Falk, Jr., Ann Brick, John H. Larson, County Counsel, William F. Stewart and Halvor S. Melom for Defendants and Appellants.

William H. Levit, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Henry J. Silberberg, Margaret A. Nagle, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Richard Chernick, Wayne W. Smith and Daniel Q. Callister for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Edwin A. Heafey, Jr., Peter W. Davis, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Robert A. Seligson, Cotchett, Dyer & Illston, Joseph W. Cotchett, Susan Illston, Robert C. Danneskiold, J. Anthony Kline, Byron S. Georgiou and Allen H. Sumner as Amici Curiae.

OPINION

CLARK, J.

Defendants, Controller of the State of California and Auditor-Controller of the County of Los Angeles, appeal from judgment declaring unconstitutional 1976 legislation purporting to place a limit on cost-of-living increases previously provided for judicial salaries.1 The statute as amended was held unconstitutional by the superior court on grounds it constitutes an impermissible impairment...

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