CENTER FOR PUB. INT. LAW v. FAIR POL. PRACT. COM

Docket No. D008786.

210 Cal.App.3d 1476 (1989)

259 Cal. Rptr. 21

CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST LAW et al., Petitioners, v. FAIR POLITICAL PRACTICES COMMISSION et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division One.

May 30, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Robert C. Fellmeth, Julianne B. D'Angelo and James R. Wheaton for Petitioners.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, N. Eugene Hill, Assistant Attorney General, Richard M. Frank, Deputy Attorney General, Diane M. Griffiths, Kathryn E. Donovan, Scott Hallabrin, Jeevan Ahuja, Margarita Altomirano, John G. McLean and Lilly Spitz for Respondents.

Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson & Falk, Jerome B. Falk, Jr., Hallisey & Johnson, Jeremiah F. Hallisey and Don B. Kates, Jr., as Amici Curiae.


OPINION

TODD, J.

The Center for Public Interest Law and Assemblyman John Vasconcellos (collectively, the Center) have petitioned for a writ of mandamus by which they seek to set aside a formal opinion of the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC). The FPPC opinion found certain provisions of the "Campaign Spending Limits Act of 1986,"1 Proposition 68 on the June 1988 ballot, ineffective because they...

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