COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO v. CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO

Docket No. S050179.

15 Cal.4th 909 (1997)

COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO, Defendant and Appellant; COURTESY SERVICES OF SAN BERNARDINO, INC., et al., Interveners and Appellants; APPLE VALLEY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT et al., Interveners and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

June 30, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Alan K. Marks, County Counsel, and Alan L. Green, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, Charlton G. Holland III, Assistant Attorney General, Dennis Eckhart and Michael V. Hammang, Deputy Attorneys General, Richards, Watson & Gershon, Harry L. Gershon and Steven H. Kaufmann for Interveners and Appellants.

De Witt W. Clinton, County Counsel (Los Angeles), Roberta M. Fesler, Assistant County Counsel, Daniel D. Mikesell, Jr., Deputy County Counsel, Lyle Rose, County Counsel (Placer), Jo McCormack, Deputy County Counsel, Thomas F. Casey III, County Counsel (San Mateo), Brenda Carlson, Deputy County Counsel, David C. Holland, County Counsel (Monterey), William K. Rentz, Deputy County Counsel, Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy, Craig J. Cannizzo, Robert L. Rusky, Foley, Lardner, Weissburg & Aronson, Mark S. Windisch and R. Michael Scarano, Jr., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants and Interveners and Appellants.

James F. Penman, City Attorney, Robert L. Simmons, Deputy City Attorney, Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Mueller & Naylor and John E. Mueller for Defendant and Appellant.

Eugene Dong, William D. Ross, Carol B. Sherman, Mulholland & Hickey, Thomas A. Woodley, Wylie, McBride, Jesinger, Sure & Platten, Christopher E. Platten, Christopher A. Kee, Pinnell & Kingsley, Paul Nicholas Boylan, Burke, Williams & Sorensen, Leland C. Doley, Deanna L. Ballesteros and Joseph M. Montes as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Stream & Stream, Kenneth B. Stream, Theodore K. Stream, Theresa Han Savage, Fred C. Hernandez, David D. Werner, Rutan & Tucker, Elizabeth Hanna Dixon, Matthew K. Ross and Scott R. Santagata for Interveners and Respondents.

Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard and Ruthann C. Ziegler as Amici Curiae on behalf of Interveners and Respondents.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

In this case, we address the respective roles of counties, their local emergency medical services (hereafter sometimes EMS) agencies, cities, and fire districts under the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act (the EMS Act). (Health & Saf. Code, § 1797 et seq.; all further statutory references are to this code unless otherwise indicated.) The Court of Appeal...

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