Ward CONNERLY, Plaintiff and Appellant,
v.
STATE PERSONNEL BOARD et al., Defendants and Respondents;
The California Business Council for Equal Opportunity et al., Real Parties in Interest and Appellants.
Supreme Court of California.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
March 2, 2006.
March 2, 2006.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, Anthony T. Caso, Bellevue, WA, Deborah J. La Fetra and Timothy Sandefur, Sacramento, for Plaintiff and Appellant.
Ralph D. Black, Sacramento, for Defendants and Respondents Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges and Thomas J. Nussbaum, Chancellor of the California Community Colleges.
Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Louis R. Mauro, Assistant Attorney General, Catherine Van Aken and Leslie R. Lopez, Deputy Attorney Generals, for Defendants and Respondents Phil Angelides, Treasurer of the State of California, Joan Wilson, Director of the California State Lottery and the California State Lottery Commission.
No appearance for Defendants and Respondents State Personnel Board and Steve Westly, State Controller.
Munger, Tolles & Olson, Jeffrey L. Bleich, San Francisco, Anne M. Voigts and John C. Day, Los Angeles, for Real Parties in Interest and Appellants.
Hugh F. Young, Jr., and Harvey M. Grossman, Los Angeles, for The Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest and Appellants.
Supreme Court of California.
MORENO, J.
This case involves litigation over private attorney general fees awarded pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 1021.51 in an action "which has resulted in the enforcement of an important right affecting the public interest. . . ." Here, plaintiff Ward Connerly successfully pursued litigation to invalidate several state statutes as unconstitutional under article I, section 31 of the California Constitution, enacted in 1996...
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