INDUSTRIAL WELFARE COM. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. S.F. 24123.

27 Cal.3d 690 (1980)

613 P.2d 579

166 Cal. Rptr. 331

INDUSTRIAL WELFARE COMMISSION et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF KERN COUNTY et al., Respondents; CALIFORNIA HOTEL AND MOTEL ASSOCIATION et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

July 10, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Arthur C. de Goede, Assistant Attorney General, Randall P. Borcherding, Joseph M. O'Heron, James M. Schiavenza, Carol Hunter and Ronald V. Thunen, Jr., Deputy Attorneys General, for Petitioners.

Van Bourg, Allen, Weinberg & Roger, Victor J. Van Bourg, David A. Rosenfeld, Joan Bodner, Redburn, Bodner & Palewicz, W. Kenneth Rice, Adrian Andrade and Richard M. Pearl as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.

Jerome B. Falk, Jr., Dirk M. Schenkkan, Howard, Prim, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady & Pollak, Richard W. Smith, Jan L. Kahn, Kahn & Soares, Richard M. Mosk, Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, Jean C. Gaskill, James L. Meeder, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, Willard Z. Carr, Jr., Kenneth E. Ristau, Jr., Dennis A. Gladwell, Mark Wm. Shurtleff, Donald B. Ayer, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, George J. Tichy II, Richard H. Harding, Michele S. Poohar, Littler, Mendelson, Fastiff & Tichy, Robert P. Roy, Dressler, Stoll, Quesenbery & Hersh and William R. Haerle for Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

TOBRINER, Acting C.J.

On September 7, 1979, the California Industrial Welfare Commission (hereafter IWC or commission), acting pursuant to its constitutionally and statutorily based authority (Cal. Const., art. XIV, § 1; Lab. Code, §§ 70-74, 1171-1204),1 adopted a series of industry-wide "wage orders," prescribing the minimum wages, maximum...

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