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OBRIEN v. JONES

No. S085212.

96 Cal.Rptr.2d 205 (2000)

23 Cal.4th 40

999 P.2d 95

James W. OBRIEN et al., Petitioners, v. Bill JONES, as Secretary of State, etc., et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

June 1, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kerr & Wagstaffe, James M. Wagstaffe, San Francisco, and Timothy J. Fox, Burlingame, for Petitioners.

Hansen, Boyd, Culhane & Watson, Kevin R. Culhane and Betsy S. Kimball, Sacramento, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Robert C. Fellmeth, for Center for Public Interest Law as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Jerome Fishkin; Law Offices of Ephraim Margolin, Ephraim Margolin, San Francisco, Gerald Uelman and Vicki H. Young as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Jerome Berg, in pro. per., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros, Assistant Attorney General, Andrea Lynn Hoch and Daniel G. Stone, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondents Governor Gray Davis, Senate President Pro Tempore John Burton and Speaker of the Assembly Antonio R. Villaraigosa.

William P. Wood, Oliver S. Cox and Pamela S. Giarrizzo, Sacramento, for Respondent Secretary of State Bill Jones.

GEORGE, C.J.

From the creation of the State Bar Court in 1988 until the present, Business and Professions Code sections 6079.1, subdivision (a), and 6086.65, subdivision (a), have provided that this court appoints all judges of the State Bar Court. Revised versions of these statutes, operative November 1, 2000, provide that of the five judges of the State Bar Court Hearing Department (hereafter Hearing Department),...

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