HANSEN v. CITY OF SAN BUENAVENTURA

Docket No. L.A. 32091.

42 Cal.3d 1172 (1986)

729 P.2d 186

233 Cal. Rptr. 22

MAGDALINE M. HANSEN et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CITY OF SAN BUENAVENTURA, Defendant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

December 31, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Stone & Stone, Helene Stone and Richard C. Gilman for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Donald S. Greenberg, City Attorney, Michael R. Dougherty, Assistant City Attorney, Arthur L. Littleworth, Best, Best & Krieger and Ariel P. Calonne for Defendant and Respondent.

Jerome B. Falk, Jr., Steven L. Mayer and Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson & Falk as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.


OPINION

GRODIN, J.

Defendant City of San Buenaventura (hereafter referred to as Ventura) owns and operates a water company which serves customers who reside both in and outside the city boundaries. In 1972, Ventura enacted an ordinance imposing a 70 percent surcharge on water supplied to customers living outside the city limits. Those nonresident customers brought this class action to challenge the surcharge, seeking declaratory relief...

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