ST. JOHN'S WELL CHILD & FAMILY CENTER v. SCHWARZENEGGER

No. S181760.

50 Cal.4th 960 (2010)

116 Cal. Rptr. 3d 195

239 P.3d 651

ST. JOHN'S WELL CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER et al., Petitioners, v. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, as Governor, etc., et al., Respondents; DARRELL STEINBERG, Individually and as President pro Tempore, etc., et al., Interveners.

Supreme Court of California.

October 4, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirkland & Ellis, R. Alexander Pilmer and Derek Milosavljevic , for Petitioner St. John's Well Child and Family Center.

Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, Abby McClelland , Katherine E. Meiss , David Pallack and Barbara Siegel , for Petitioners Rosa Navarro and Lionso Guzman.

Disability Rights Advocates, Sidney Wolinsky , Katrina K. Corbit , and Anna Levine , for Petitioners Californians for Disability Rights, California Foundation for Independent Living Centers, Nevada-Sierra Regional In-Home Support Services Public Authority, Liane Yasumoto and Judith Smith.

Western Center on Law & Poverty, Richard A. Rothschild , and Nu Usaha , for Petitioners.

Miguel A. Marquez , Acting County Counsel, (Santa Clara), Tamara A. Lange , Lead Deputy County Counsel, Juniper Lesnik and Greta S. Hansen , Deputy County Counsel, for County of Santa Clara as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Rothner, Segall, Greenstone & Leheny, Anthony R. Segall ; Altshuler Berzon , Scott A. Kronland and Danielle E. Leonard , for SEIU California State Council, United Domestic Workers and California United Homecare Workers as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

O'Melveny & Myers, Robert M. Schwartz , Robert C. Welsh , David A. Lash , Sandeep N. Solanki , Jordan P. Raphael , Robert Silvers , Jessica A. Hoogs , Ashley Chalmers and Flora Vigo for Children Now, Valley Community Clinic, Eisner Pediatric & Family Medical Center, The Saban Free Clinic, YWCA Monterey County, Westside Family Health Center, Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County and The Legal Aid Association of California as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Eve M. Coddon , Cameron W. Fox and Amanda A. Bolliger , for AIDS Project Los Angeles as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Reich, Adell & Cvitan, Laurence S. Zakson , William Y. Sheh , and Aaron G. Lawrence , for Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Martin A. Weiss for Riverside County Democratic Central Committee, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. , Attorney General, Jonathan K. Renner , Assistant Attorney General, Zackery P. Morazzini and Ross C. Moody , Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondents.

Nielsen, Merksamer, Parinello, Mueller & Naylor, Steven A. Merksamer , Richard D. Martland and Kurt Oneto , for George Deukmejian , Pete Wilson , Gray Davis , California Chamber of Commerce, California Taxpayers' Association and California Business Roundtable as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.

Diane F. Boyer-Vine , Jeffrey A. DeLand ; Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, Robin B. Johansen , James C. Harrison , Thomas A. Willis , Karen Getman and Margaret R. Prinzing for Interveners.


OPINION

GEORGE, C. J.

We granted review in this original writ proceeding to address the propriety of the Governor's use of the so-called "line-item veto" under the asserted authority of article IV, section 10, subdivision (e) of the California Constitution, to further reduce funding that already had been reduced by the Legislature in its midyear adjustments to the Budget Act of 2009. The Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division...

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