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WATER QUALITY ASSN. v. COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA

Docket Nos. B089470, B090201.

44 Cal.App.4th 732 (1996)

52 Cal. Rptr.2d 184

WATER QUALITY ASSOCIATION et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA et al., Defendants and Appellants. WATER QUALITY ASSOCIATION et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. CITY OF SANTA MARIA et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Six.

April 17, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Stephan Shane Stark, County Counsel, and Clare H. MacDonald, Deputy County Counsel, for Defendants and Appellants in No. B089470.

Brown, Diven & Hentschke, Daniel S. Hentschke, Celia A. Brewer and Martha H. Lennihan as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants in No. B089470.

Arthur Montandon, City Attorney, for Defendants and Appellants in No. B090201.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, Roderick E. Walston, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Charles W. Getz IV, Assistant Attorney General, Randall B. Christison and Carol A. Squire, Deputy Attorneys General, Weissburg and Aronson and Gregory V. Moser as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants in No. B090201.

Keck, Mahin & Cate, Stephen M. Levine, Rubinstein & Perry and Lyman D. Bedford for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Robert A. Merring, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Gail E. Lees, Ralph I. Hubley III and Marilyn Ruth Riley as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.

OPINION

GILBERT, J.

A state statutory scheme regulates the types of water softening appliances consumers may use.

May local entities enact ordinances which prohibit water softeners permitted by the state statute? No, they are preempted by the state statute.

The City of Santa Maria (City), and the Laguna County Sanitation District et al. (District), appeal from the judgment...

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