SIERRA CLUB v. CITY OF HAYWARD

Docket No. S.F. 24201.

28 Cal.3d 840 (1981)

623 P.2d 180

171 Cal. Rptr. 619

SIERRA CLUB et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CITY OF HAYWARD, Defendant and Respondent; Y. CHARLES SODA et al., Real Parties in Interest and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

February 9, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Julie E. McDonald and Laurens H. Silver for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Nicholas C. Arguimbau, E. Clement Shute, Jr., Mark I. Weinberger and Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

John W. Scanlon, City Attorney, for Defendant and Respondent.

Berliner, Cohen & Biagini and Jeffrey P. Widman for Real Parties in Interest and Respondents.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

In this administrative mandamus proceeding (Code Civ. Proc., § 1094.5) we are asked for the first time to construe the provisions of the California Land Conservation Act of 1965 (Gov. Code, § 51200 et seq., hereinafter called the Williamson Act) that authorize cancellation of land preservation contracts made pursuant to that act. The Sierra Club and others (Sierra Club)1 appeal...

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