SENATE OF THE STATE OF CAL. v. JONES

No. S083194.

90 Cal.Rptr.2d 810 (1999)

21 Cal.4th 1142

988 P.2d 1089

SENATE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA et al., Petitioners, v. Bill JONES, as Secretary of State, etc., et al., Respondents; Edward J. Costa, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

December 13, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, Joseph Remcho, Robin B. Johansen, Kathleen J. Purcell, James C. Harrison, San Francisco, and Thomas A. Willis, for Petitioners.

Lloyd W. Pellman, County Counsel, and Halvor S. Melom, Principal Deputy County Counsel, for Respondent Conny B. McCormack, Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters.

William P. Wood, Oliver S. Cox, Pamela Giarrizzo; Knox, Lemmon & Anapolsky, Thomas S. Knox, Sacramento, Glen C. Hansen and John L. Gibson III, for Respondent Bill Jones, Secretary of State of the State of California.

Stephen R. Barnett, Berkeley; Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, Charles H. Bell, Jr., Sacramento, Thomas W. Hiltachk, Santa Monica, and James F. Sweeney, Sacramento, for Real Party in Interest.

Trevor A. Grimm, Los Angeles, Jonathan M. Coupal, Sacramento, and Timothy A. Bittle, for Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondents and Real Party in Interest.

Ernest Dynda, for United Organization of Taxpayers as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondents and Real Party in Interest.

T. Anthony Quinn as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondents and Real Party in Interest.


GEORGE, C.J.

Petitioners, the Senate of the State of California, the President Pro Tempore of the California Senate, and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, filed this original proceeding in this court on October 28, 1999, seeking a writ of mandate or prohibition to restrain respondents, the Secretary of State of California and the Registrar of Voters for the County of Los Angeles, from placing an initiative...

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