HOTEL EMPLOYEES & RESTAURANT EMP. v. DAVIS

Nos. S074850, S074851.

88 Cal.Rptr.2d 56 (1999)

981 P.2d 990

21 Cal.4th 585

HOTEL EMPLOYEES AND RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, Petitioner, v. Gray DAVIS, as Governor, etc., et al., Respondents; Frank Lawrence, Real Party in Interest. Eric Cortez et al., Petitioners, v. Gray Davis, as Governor, etc., Respondent; Frank Lawrence et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

August 23, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davis, Cowell & Bowe, Richard G. McCracken, Andrew J. Kahn and Michael T. Anderson, San Francisco, for Petitioner Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union.

Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Mueller & Naylor, Steven A. Merksamer, John E. Mueller, Richard D. Martland and Cathy A. Christian, Mill Valley, for William Campbell and Barry Keene, Sacramento, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Frank Rothman, Darrell J. Hieber, Harriet S. Posner, Gary S. Glickman, Los Angeles, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Theodore B. Olson, John H. Sharer, Wayne W. Smith, Jeffrey H. Reeves, Thomas S. Jones and Amanda R. Wheeland, Irvine, for Petitioners Cortez et al.

Horvitz & Levy, Ellis J. Horvitz, Barry R. Levy and John A. Taylor, Jr., Encino, for the Dehesa Valley Community Council as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioners Cortez et al.

Daniel E. Lungren and Bill Lockyer, Attorneys General, Roderick E. Walston, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Manuel M. Meideros, Assistant Attorney General, Sara J. Drake, Kenneth R. Williams, Ronald L. Diedrich and Timothy M. Muscat, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondents.

Munger, Tolles & Olson, Mark H. Epstein, Douglas A. Axel and Linda M. Burrow, Los Angeles, for Real Parties in Interest.

Lacy & Lacy and James V. Lacy, Laguna Niguel, for California Young Americans for Freedom, Bruce Herschensohn, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, State Senators Dave Kelley and Cathie Wright, Assemblymen Tony Strickland and Brett Granlund, Brett R. Barbre, Director, Yorba Linda Water District, and Matthew Harper, Governing Board Member, Huntington Beach High School District as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.

California Indian Legal Services, James E. Cohen, Michael S. Pfeffer and Stephen V. Quesenberry, Oakland, for Blue Lake Rancheria, Bridgeport Paiute Indian Colony, Cedarville Rancheria, Guidiville Indian Rancheria, Karuk Tribe of California, La Joila Band of Indians, Manzanita Bank of Mission Indians, Mesa Grande Band of Mission Indians, North Fork Rancheria, Pauma Band of Mission Indians, Table Bluff Reservation-Wiyot Tribe, Timbisha Shoshone Tribe, the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians and the U Tu Utu Gwaitu Paiute Tribe of the Benton Paiute Reservation as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.

Carole E. Goldberg, Los Angeles, for Indian Law Professors Jo Carrillo, Reid Chambers, Robert N. Clinton, Richard B. Collins, Arturo Gandara, Gerald Gardner, David Getches, Raleigh Levine, Nell Newton, Monroe Price, Renriard Strikland and Charles F. Wilkinson as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.

Gerald F. Uelman, Santa Clara, for California State Firefighters' Association, Palm Springs Chamber of Commerce, Murrieta Chamber of Commerce and Temecula Valley Chamber of Commerce as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents and Real Parties in Interest.

Van Bourg, Weinberg, Rozen & Rosenfeld and Sandra Rae Benson, Oakland, for California State Building and Construction Trades Council, Building and Construction Trades Council of Alameda, AFL-CIO, Contra Costa Building and Construction Trades Council and Napa/Solano Counties Building and Construction Trades Council as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents and Real Parties in Interest.

Robert D. Purcell for Laborers' International Union of North America as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondents and Real Parties in Interest.

Castle &' Krause and Tamara Utens, Temecula, for San Bernardino County Safety Employees' Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondents and Real Parties in Interest.


WERDEGAR, J.

In 1984, the people of California amended our Constitution to state a fundamental public policy against the legalization in California of casino gambling of the sort then associated with Las Vegas and Atlantic City: "The Legislature has no power to authorize, and shall prohibit casinos of the type currently operating in Nevada and New Jersey." (Cal. Const., art. IV, § 19, subd. (e), added by initiative, Gen. Elec. (Nov. 6, 1984).)

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