VENTURA GROUP VENTURES v. VENTURA PORT DIST.

No. S080112.

104 Cal.Rptr.2d 53 (2001)

24 Cal.4th 1089

16 P.3d 717

VENTURA GROUP VENTURES, INC., Plaintiff and Appellants. v. VENTURA PORT DISTRICT et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

Rehearing Denied March 28, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Heily & Blase, John R. Johnson, Compton, and Carol J. Covington, Ventura, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

James L. McBride, County Counsel, Robert R. Orellana and Lawrence M. Matheney, Assistant County Counsel, for Defendant and Respondent Board of Supervisors of County of Ventura.

Lagerlof, Senecal, Bradley, Gosney & Kruse, H. Jess Senecal, and Thomas S. Bunn III, Pasadena, for Defendant and Respondent Ventura Port District.

Robert G. Boehm, City Attorney (San Buenaventura), for 28 California Cities as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

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


BROWN, J.

We granted the request of the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for the answers to the following certified questions of law under rule 29.5 of the California Rules of Court:1

"1. Does [a]rticle XIII A of the California Constitution (adopted in 1978 by state-wide initiative as Proposition 13) prohibit a county from levying property taxes, in excess of the one...

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