TIDEWATER MARINE WESTERN, INC. v. BRADSHAW

Docket No. S048739.

14 Cal.4th 557 (1996)

TIDEWATER MARINE WESTERN, INC., et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. VICTORIA L. BRADSHAW, as Labor Commissioner, etc., et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

December 19, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, Edmond B. Mamer, Carol H. Rehm. Jr., and David S. Chaney, Deputy Attorneys General, H. Thomas Cadell, Jr., Michael S. Villeneuve, William A. Reich, Miles E. Locker, Anticouni & Anticouni, Anticouni & Associates, Bruce N. Anticouni, Curtis Heeter, Henry Bongiovi and Caroline M. Weeks for Defendants and Appellants.

Michael Asimow as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Baker & Hostetler, Michael M. Johnson, Ralph Zarefsky and Lisa F. Hinchliffe for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Laurie A. Frost, Carlsmith, Ball, Wichman, Case & Ichiki, Barry R. Ogilby, Musick, Peeler & Garrett and Charles E. Slyngstad as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.


OPINION

CHIN, J.

In this case, we decide whether the wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission (IWC) govern employment in the Santa Barbara Channel. To decide that question, we must decide, among other things, whether written interpretive policies of the state agency charged with enforcing IWC wage orders constitute regulations within the meaning of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) (Gov. Code, § 11340 et seq.). We...

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