CALIFORNIA FAMILY BIOETHICS COUNCIL v. CIRM

Nos. A114195, A114282.

55 Cal.Rptr.3d 272 (2007)

147 Cal.App.4th 1319

CALIFORNIA FAMILY BIOETHICS COUNCIL, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE et al., Defendants and Respondents. People's Advocate et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. Independent Citizen's Oversight Committee et al., Defendants and Respondents.

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

February 26, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Llewellyn † Spann, David L. Llewellyn, Jr., Citrus Heights, for plaintiff and appellant California Family Bioethics Council.

Life Legal Defense Foundation, Dana Cody, Catherine W. Short, Robert M. Taylor, San Clemente, Terry L. Thompson, for plaintiffs and appellants People's Advocate, National Tax Limitation Foundation.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert Anderson, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Tom Greene, James M. Humes, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Leslie Lopez,

Tamar Pachter, Deputy Attorneys General, for defendants and respondents.

Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, O'Malley M. Miller, Michael R. Doyen, Mark H. Epstein, Paul J. Watford, Los Angeles, for amicus curiae for California Institute of Technology, Keck Graduate Institute, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, University of Southern California, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Oakland, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, City of Hope, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Alliance for Aging Research, Alliance for Stem Cell Research, ALS Association, Alzheimer's Association California Council, Cancer Research & Prevention Foundation, Christopher Reeve Foundation, Cystic Fibrosis Research, Inc., Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, National Brain Tumor Foundation, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Parkinson's Action Network, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Southern California Biomedical Council, Dr. Paul Berg, Nobel Laureate on behalf of defendant and respondent,


POLLAK, J.

Before us is an appeal from two consolidated actions challenging the validity of Proposition 71, the stem cell research initiative approved by a substantial majority of the voters at the General Election on November 2, 2004. Relying in significant part on the reasoning of California Assn. of Retail Tobacconists v. State of California (2003) 109 Cal.App.4th 792, 135 Cal.Rptr.2d 224...

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