MACIAS v. STATE OF CALIFORNIA

Docket No. S039245.

10 Cal.4th 844 (1995)

897 P.2d 530

42 Cal. Rptr.2d 592

ALFONSO MACIAS et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

July 17, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Litt, Marquez & Fajardo, Litt & Marquez, Barrett S. Litt, Anne Richardson and Ben Margolis for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Patti A. Goldman, Kristen L. Boyles, Williams S. Curtiss, Brian Wolfman, Adele P. Kimmel, Arthur H. Bryant, Stuart Miller, Vivienne J. Alston, Mark Rosenbaum, Rawles, Hinkle, Carter, Behnke & Oglesby, Jared G. Carter and Michael D. Macomber as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Haight, Brown & Bonesteel, Roy G. Weatherup, Mary Ann Murphy, Munger, Tolles & Olson, Charles D. Siegal, Allison B. Stein and Mark A. Merva for Defendants and Respondents.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, Roderick E. Walston, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Walter Wunderlich, Assistant Attorney General, Charles W. Getz IV, Deputy Attorney General, Harvey M. Grossman, McKenna & Cuneo, Lawrence S. Ebner, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, James C. Martin, Preuss, Walker & Shanagher and Alan J. Lazarus as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

ARABIAN, J.

This case arises out of the noted efforts of the State of California (State) to eradicate periodic infestations of the Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly) through wide-scale helicopter spraying of the insecticide malathion. Three times over the last twenty-five years our Governors, acting pursuant to their extraordinary powers under the Emergency Services Act (Gov. Code, § 8550 et seq.) have declared a state...

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