HI-VOLTAGE WIRE WORKS, INC. v. CITY OF SAN JOSE

No. S080318.

101 Cal.Rptr.2d 653 (2000)

24 Cal.4th 537

12 P.3d 1068

HI-VOLTAGE WIRE WORKS, INC., et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. CITY OF SAN JOSE et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

November 30, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Doyle, City Attorney, George Rios, Assistant City Attorney, Glenn D. Schwarzbach and Robert Fabela, Deputy City Attorneys; and Joan R. Gallo for Defendants and Appellants.

Bill Lann Lee, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Stuart J. Ishimaru, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Mark L. Gross and Lisa W. Edwards, Dist. of Columbia, for United States as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Richard M. Frank, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Louis Verdugo, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, and Marjorie Cox, Deputy Attorney General, for State of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Louise H. Renne, City Attorney, Randy Riddle, Mara E. Rosales, Ellen M. Forman and Teresa L. Strieker, Deputy City Attorneys; Moscone, Emblidge & Quadra and G. Scott Emblidge for City and County of San Francisco, County of Alameda, County of Marin, County of Sacramento, City of Albany, City of Berkeley, City of Hayward, City of Los Angeles, City of Oakland, City of Redlands, City of Sacramento, City of San Pablo and the East Bay Municipal Utility District as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Morrison & Foerster, Alan Cope Johnston, Su W. Hwang, Cynthia L. Lopez, Katherine A. Zonana, Sharyn K. Funamura, Palo Alto, and Lia B. Epperson, for United Minority Business Entrepreneurs, Santa Clara County Black Chamber of Commerce, Coalition for Economic Equity and Tradeswomen, Inc., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Beth H. Parker; Eva J. Peterson and Oren Sellstrom, Woodland, for Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Cruz Reynoso, Christopher J. Edley, Jr., Elsie Meeks and Yvonne Y. Lee, Commissioners for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Equal Rights Advocates, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California, Employment Law Center, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and California Minority Counsel Program as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Elaine R. Jones, Washington, DC, Theodore M. Shaw, Norman J. Chachkin, Melissa Woods, Erica J. Teasley; and Pamela S. Karlan for NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Lora Jo Foo, Khin Mai Aung, San Francisco; Karen K. Narasaki, Aryani Ong; Crowell & Moring, J. Michael Klise, Andy Liu, Miguel Del Toro, Washington, DC; Stewart Kwoh, Los Angeles, Julie A. Su; Sin Yen Ling and Ken Kimerling for National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, Asian Law Caucus and Asian American Contractors Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Horvitz & Levy, David S. Ettinger, Encino, and Jon B. Eisenberg, Oakland, for Mission Hiring Hall, Visitation Valley Jobs Education and Training, Asian Neighborhood Design, Chinese for Affirmative Action, Ella Hill Hutch Community Center and Young Community Developers as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Edward Chen for American Civil Liberties Union Foundation for Northern California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

William McNeill III and Julian Gross, San Francisco, for Employment Law Center as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Pacific Legal Foundation, John H. Findley, Sharon L. Browne, Sacramento, Deborah J. La Fetra, Stephen R. McCutcheon, Jr., and Mark T. Gallagher, Sacramento, for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Kevin T. Snider, Gary G. Kreep, Escondido, and William G. Gillespie for United States Justice Foundation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Losch & Ehrlich and Ronald K. Losch, San Francisco, for HSQ Technology as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Simpson, Aherne & Garrity, San Mateo, and Pamela A. Lewis for J. Jack Bras and doing business as J. Jack Bras & Associates as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Roger Clegg and David A. DeGroot, Austin, TX, for Glynn Custred and Thomas E. Wood as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Patrick J. Manshardt; Law Offices of Manuel S. Klausner and Manuel S. Klausner, Los Angeles, for American Civil Rights Institute, Ward Connerly and Governor Pete Wilson as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.


BROWN, J.

"In the history of this Court and this country, few questions have been more divisive than those arising from governmental action taken on the basis of race." (Fullilove v. Klutznick (1980) 448 U.S. 448, 516, 100 S.Ct. 2758, 65 L.Ed.2d 902 (cone, opn. of Powell, J.); see also DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974) 416 U.S. 312, 350, 94 S.Ct. 1704, 40 L.Ed.2d 164 (dis. opn. of Brennan, J.)...

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