TAXPAYERS TO LIMIT CAMPAIGN v. FAIR POL. PRACTICES

Docket No. S012016.

51 Cal.3d 744 (1990)

799 P.2d 1220

274 Cal. Rptr. 787

TAXPAYERS TO LIMIT CAMPAIGN SPENDING, Petitioner, v. FAIR POLITICAL PRACTICES COMMISSION, Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

November 1, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Munger, Tolles & Olson, Bradley S. Phillips and Mark H. Epstein for Petitioner.

Diane M. Griffiths, Kathryn E. Donovan, Margaret Ellison, Jeevan Ahiya and Scott Hallabrin for Respondent.

Olson, Connelly, Hagel & Fong, Lance H. Olson, George Waters, Ball, Hunt, Hart, Brown & Baerwitz, Allan E. Tebbetts, Judith F. Burkey, Albert W. Gieseman, Jr., Michael R. Overly, Nielsen, Merksamer, Hodgson, Parrinello & Mueller, Vigo G. Nielsen, Louise J. Rosen-Garcia, John E. Mueller, Charles H. Bell, Jr., Judy S. Davis, Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Phillips, Philip R. Recht, Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, Joseph Remcho, Robin B. Johansen, Lowell Finley, Charles C. Marson, Kopp & Di Franco, Quentin L. Kopp and Ross Johnson as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent.


OPINION

EAGLESON, J.

The California Constitution provides: "If provisions of 2 or more measures approved at the same election conflict, those of the measure receiving the highest affirmative vote shall prevail." (Const., art. II, § 10, subd. (b). Hereafter, section 10(b).)1 (1) Rules of statutory construction, however, require an attempt to reconcile statutory provisions relating to the...

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