GUILLEN v. SCHWARZENEGGER

No. A106873.

55 Cal.Rptr.3d 87 (2007)

147 Cal.App.4th 929

Juana Raquel GUILLEN, et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. Arnold SCHWARZENEGGER, as Governor of California, et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeal of California, First District, Division Three.

February 16, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Thomas R. Yanger, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Teresa L. Stinson, Douglas M. Press and Karin S. Schwartz, Deputy Attorneys General for Defendants and Appellants.

Clare Pastore, Los Angeles; Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, Oren M. Sellstrom; Western Center on Law and Poverty, Nu Usaha, Richard A. Rothschild, Los Angeles, and Robert Newman, Tustin, for Plaintiffs and Respondents.


McGUINESS, P.J.

This case turns upon the interpretation of two interrelated, oft-amended statutes. During the period from fiscal year (FY) 2000-2001 through FY 2003-2004, Welfare and Institutions Code section 11453, subdivision (c)(3) made the state's payment of cost of living adjustments (COLAs) to Cal-WORKS grants dependent each year upon California motorists' receipt of "any increase in tax relief pursuant to a separate statute, former Revenue and Taxation Code...

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