PEOPLE EX REL. DEUKMEJIAN v. COUNTY OF MENDOCINO

Docket No. S.F. 24588.

36 Cal.3d 476 (1984)

683 P.2d 1150

204 Cal. Rptr. 897

THE PEOPLE ex rel. GEORGE DEUKMEJIAN, as Attorney General, etc., Plaintiff and Respondent, v. COUNTY OF MENDOCINO et al., Defendants and Appellants. PROPONENTS OF THE INITIATIVE et al., Interveners and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

July 26, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

John A. Drummond and H. Peter Klein, County Counsel, Stephen D. Underwood and Ronald R. Ball, Deputy County Counsel, for Defendants and Appellants.

Vogel & Rosen, Barry Vogel, Laurens H. Silver, Douglas L. Honnold, Stark, Stewart, Wells & Robinson, Phillip S. Berry, Berry & Berry, Wesley R. Higbie and Henrickson Higbie, Mingst & Cole for Interveners and Appellants.

George Deukmejian and John K. Van de Kamp, Attorneys General, R.H. Connett, Assistant Attorney General, Allene C. Zanger and M. Anne Jennings, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

BROUSSARD, J.

In this action for declaratory and injunctive relief, the trial court determined that a Mendocino County initiative ordinance prohibiting aerial application of phenoxy herbicides was preempted by state law and therefore invalid. The court entered summary judgment for plaintiff, the State of California. The county and a number of interveners appeal.

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