LEGISLATURE v. DEUKMEJIAN

Docket Nos. S.F. 24589, 24596.

34 Cal.3d 658 (1983)

669 P.2d 17

194 Cal. Rptr. 781

LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA et al., Petitioners, v. GEORGE DEUKMEJIAN, as Governor, etc., et al., Respondents; DON SEBASTIANI et al., Real Parties in Interest. GLENN M. ANDERSON et al., Petitioners, v. GEORGE DEUKMEJIAN, as Governor, etc., et al., Respondents; DON SEBASTIANI et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

September 15, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Joseph Remcho, Robin B. Johansen, Kathleen J. Purcell, Barbara A. Brenner, Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, Charles C. Marson, Irell & Manella, Richard H. Borow, Jonathan H. Steinberg, Donna R. Hecht, Daniel Hays Lowenstein, Steven Shiffrin and Bruce Wessel for Petitioners.

J. Albert Woll, Laurence Gold, Marsha S. Berson, Fred H. Altshuler, Stephen P. Berzon, Michael Rubin, Altshuler & Berson, Charles P. Scully, Donald C. Carroll, Charles P. Scully II, John B. Clausen, County Counsel (Contra Costa). Arthur W. Walenta, Assistant County Counsel, Donald Clark, County Counsel (Santa Clara), Robert Menifee, Deputy County Counsel, Joaquin G. Avila, Morris J. Baller, John E. Huerta, Douglas E. Mirell, Susan Lerner, Barbara S. Bryant, Farnsworth, Saperstein & Brand, Burton S. Levinson, Nathaniel S. Colley, Ephraim Margolin and Sandra Coliver as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Richard D. Martland, Chief Assistant Attorney General, N. Eugene Hill and Paul H. Dobson, Deputy Attorneys General, and Vance W. Raye for Respondents.

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Walter R. Allan, Vaughn R. Walker, Frederick K. Lowell and Kevin M. Fong for Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

THE COURT.*

In this case we are called upon to determine the constitutionality of an attempt — novel in the history of this state — to readjust state legislative and congressional district boundaries through the statutory initiative process after the Legislature has already done so. We are asked by the proponents of the initiative to create...

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