CALFARM INS. CO. v. DEUKMEJIAN

Docket No. S007838.

48 Cal.3d 805 (1989)

771 P.2d 1247

258 Cal. Rptr. 161

CALFARM INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Petitioners, v. GEORGE DEUKMEJIAN, as Governor, etc., et al., Respondents; ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION et al., Real Parties in Interest; AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LIFE INSURANCE et al., Interveners.

Supreme Court of California.

May 4, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Frank Rothman, Darrel J. Hieber, John S. Yun, Gary S. Glickman, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, David M. Balabanian, Beth H. Parker, John C. Morrissey, Hajime Tada, Leboeuf, Lamb, Leiby & Macrae, James R. Woods, Sanford Kingsley, Horvitz, Levy & Amerian, Ellis J. Horvitz, Munger, Tolles & Olson, Allen M. Katz, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Raoul D. Kennedy, Ezra Hendon, Cooper, White & Cooper, James S. Greenan and John P. Makin for Petitioners.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, John L. Endicott, Ronald A. Zumbrun, John H. Findley, Anthony T. Caso, Sharon L. Browne, Barger & Wolen, Richards D. Barger, Royal F. Oakes, Richard G. De La Mora, Robert E. Feyder, Roger L. McNitt, Robert K. Schraner, S. Stuart Soldate, Randall A. Doctor, Michael L. Rosenfield, Kent Keller, Steven H. Weinstein, Larry M. Golub, Ball, Hunt, Hart, Brown & Baerwitz, John R. McDonough, Allan E. Tebbetts, Judith F. Burkey, Latham & Watkins, Gerald J. Lewis, Donald P. Newell, Mark S. Pulliam, Kristine L. Wilkes, Gary D. Simms, Sidley & Austin, Richard Schauer, Thomas H. Keeling, Harry M. Snyder, Gail K. Hillebrand, Nettie Y. Hoge, Haight, Brown & Bonesteel, Roy G. Weatherup, Robert L. Kaufman, Zeb Francoeur, Cotkin, Collins & Franscall, Raphael Cotkin, Laurence J. Rubinow, Eric S. Oto, Ropers, Majeski, Kohn, Bentley, Wagner & Kane, Michael J. Brady, Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon and Julia A. Molander as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Richard D. Martland, Michael J. Strumwasser, Fredric D. Woocher, Timothy G. Laddish, Joseph M. O'Heron, Jack T. Kerry, Carol H. Rehm, Jr., Deputy Attorneys General, Vance W. Raye, Tani C. Cantil and Fermin Ramos for Respondents.

James K. Hahn, City Attorney (Los Angeles), Charles I. Goldenberg, Assistant City Attorney, Edmund Fimbres, Deputy City Attorney, Robert P. Newman, Mary M. Lee, D. Robert Shuman and John W. Davies as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.

Cotchett & Illston, Joseph W. Cotchett, Susan Illston, Alan W. Haverty, Hedges, Powe & Caldwell, George R. Hedges, Josephine E. Powe, Robert Fellmeth, James R. Wheaton, Karl M. Manheim, Peter J. Donnici, Daniel J. Lathrop, Robert Post, Louis Schwartz and George Alexander for Real Parties in Interest.

R. Blair Reynolds and Christopher Chenoweth as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.

Adams, Duque & Hazeltine, James M. Fleming, Jeffery Anne Tatum, Heron, Burchette, Ruckert & Rothwell, Robert H. Myers, Jr., Mark D. Nozette, Kenneth C. Sundlof, Jr., John A. Norwood and Robert J. Franceschi for Interveners.

Lewis Keller, Bradley E. Wenger and Brent A. Barnhart as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners and Interveners.

Stone & Healy, Michael P. Stone, Mary Ann Healy, Pat Thistle and Enrique Hernandez as Amici Curiae.


OPINION

BROUSSARD, J.

In this case we consider various challenges to Proposition 103, an initiative measure enacted November 8, 1988, making numerous fundamental changes in the regulation of automobile and other types of insurance.1 Petitioners, seven insurers and the Association of California Insurance Companies, have filed an original petition for writ of mandate in this court, contending that Proposition...

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