BECK v. COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA

Docket No. H003922.

204 Cal.App.3d 789 (1988)

251 Cal. Rptr. 444

TOM BECK et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA et al., Defendants and Respondents. ROBERT WINTER, as Sheriff, etc., Petitioner, v. COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA et al., Respondents; TOM BECK et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Sixth District.

September 16, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Christopher D. Burdick, William H. Sortor, Ronald E. Yank, Michael L. Rains, David P. Clisham and Carroll, Burdick & McDonough for Plaintiffs and Appellants and Real Parties in Interest.

Stephen H. Silver and Silver, Kreisler, Goldwasser & Shaeffer as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs, Cross-defendants and Appellants.

Robert J. Logan for Plaintiff and Appellant and Petitioner.

John P. O'Brien as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Appellant Winter.

Donald L. Clark, County Counsel, Steve Woodside, Assistant County Counsel, Robert A. Weers and James Rumble, Deputy County Counsel, Richard S. Whitmore, Richard C. Bolanos, Monna P. Radulovich, Whitmore, Kay & Stevens, Joseph Remcho, Kathleen J. Purcell, Julie M. Randolph, Remcho, Johansen & Purcell for Defendants and Respondents.

Dwight L. Herr, County Counsel (Santa Cruz), Thomas F. Casey III, County Counsel (San Mateo), Robert Westmeyer, County Counsel (Napa), Michael D. Ott, County Counsel (Madera), Max E. Robinson, County Counsel (Fresno), Alan K. Marks, County Counsel (San Bernardino), David E. Whittington, County Counsel (El Dorado), William J. Murphy, County Counsel (Colusa), Denis A. Eymil, County Counsel (Kings), James A. Curtis, County Counsel (Nevada), and Susan Roff, County Counsel (Butte) as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.


OPINION

AGLIANO, P.J.

By resolutions the Board of Supervisors of Santa Clara County created a new County Department of Detention (DOD), to be headed by a board-appointed county official, and transferred to it the management of county jail facilities formerly under the jurisdiction of the sheriff, Robert Winter. Winter, the Deputy Sheriff's Association of Santa Clara County (DSA), and DSA president Tom Beck (also a county resident...

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