SOUTHERN CAL. RAPID TRANSIT DIST. v. BOLEN

Docket No. S015986.

1 Cal.4th 654 (1992)

822 P.2d 875

3 Cal. Rptr.2d 843

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. HELEN M. BOLEN, Defendant and Appellant; ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY et al., Interveners and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

January 30, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Marilyn L. Garcia, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, John J. Wasilczyk and Earle Miller for Defendant and Appellant.

MacDonald, Halsted & Laybourne, John R. Shiner, Stephanie Berrington McNutt, Lisa Winfield Liberatore, Hill, Farrer & Burrill, William M. Bitting, Vincent C. Page, Kevin H. Brogan and Dean E. Dennis for Interveners and Appellants.

Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert & Matz, Vincent J. Marella, Dorothy Wolpert, Mark T. Drooks and Diane P. Shakin for Plaintiff and Respondent.

De Witt W. Clinton, County Counsel (Los Angeles), David B. Kelsey, Assistant County Counsel, Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott, James C. Powers and Alvin S. Kaufer as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

ARABIAN, J.

The principal question before us is whether the equal protection guarantees of the state and federal Constitutions are violated by a statute conditioning the right to vote on the ownership of real property and alloting votes on the basis of its assessed value. We hold that, under the narrow circumstances presented, such a voting scheme is reasonably related to the objectives of the statute and thus survives constitutional...

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