CALIFORNIA REDEVELOPMENT ASSN. v. MATOSANTOS

No. S194861.

53 Cal.4th 231 (2011)

CALIFORNIA REDEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION et al., Petitioners, v. ANA MATOSANTOS, as Director, etc., et al., Respondents; COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA et al., Interveners and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

December 29, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, Steven L. Mayer and Emily H. Wood for Petitioners.

Richards, Watson & Gershon, Sayre Weaver , Steven R. Orr , Toussaint S. Bailey and Andrew J. Brady for the Association of Bay Area Governments and Various California Cities and Redevelopment Agencies as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Carmen A. Trutanich , City Attorney (Los Angeles), Kelly Martin , Assistant City Attorney; Kane, Ballmer & Berkman, Murray O. Kane , Susan Y. Cola and Donald P. Johnson for Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles, Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing and Betty Yee as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Rutan & Tucker, William M. Marticorena , Philip D. Kohn , Jeffrey T. Melching , Bill Ihrke and Jennifer Farrell for City of Irvine as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Rutan & Tucker, Jeffrey M. Oderman , Dan Slater , Mark J. Austin , Bill Ihrke and Megan K. Garibaldi for City of Cerritos, Cerritos Redevelopment Agency, City of Carson, Carson Redevelopment Agency, City of Commerce, Commerce Community Development Commission, City of Cypress, Cypress Redevelopment Agency, City of Downey, Community Development Commission of the City of Downey, City of Lakewood, Lakewood Redevelopment Agency, City of Paramount, Paramount Redevelopment Agency, City of Placentia, Redevelopment Agency of the City of Placentia, City of Santa Fe Springs, Community Development Commission of the City of Santa Fe Springs, City of Signal Hill, Signal Hill Redevelopment Agency, Cuesta Villas Housing Corporation and Bruce W. Barrows as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Wallin, Kress, Reisman & Kranitz, Peter L. Wallin ; Law Offices of Robert V. Wadden, Jr., and Robert V. Wadden, Jr. , for Long Beach Central, West and North Project Area Committees as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Michael F. Rawson , Deborah Collins , Craig Castellanet , Roland Chang , Ilene J. Jacobs , Mona Tawatao , Shashi Hanuman , Remy De La Peza , Richard Rothschild and S. Lynn Martinez for the Public Interest Law Project, California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., Legal Services of Northern California, Public Counsel and Western Center on Law & Poverty as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Pamela J. Walls , County Counsel, and Anita C. Willis , Deputy County Counsel, for County of Riverside as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Jean-Rene Basle , County Counsel, and Michelle D. Blakemore , Chief Assistant County Counsel, for County of San Bernardino as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Woodruff, Spradlin & Smart, M. Lois Bobak and Thomas F. Nixon for Association of California Cities-Orange County as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros , State Solicitor General, Douglas J. Woods , Assistant Attorney General, Peter A. Krause , Seth E. Goldstein and Ross C. Moody , Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondents Ana Matosantos, as Director of the California Department of Finance, and State Controller John Chiang.

Miguel Márquez , County Counsel, Orry P. Korb , Assistant County Counsel, Lizanne Reynolds and James R. Williams , Deputy County Counsel, for Respondents Vinod K. Sharma , Auditor-Controller of the County of Santa Clara and the County of Santa Clara.

Miguel Márquez , County Counsel (Santa Clara), Lori E. Pegg , Assistant County Counsel, Lizanne Reynolds and James R. Williams , Deputy County Counsel, for Santa Clara Unified School District as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondents.

Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, Karen Getman and Margaret R. Prinzing for California Teachers Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondents.

Catherine A. Rodman for Affordable Housing Advocates as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondents.

Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, Thomas Hiltachk and Ashlee N. Titus for California Professional Firefighters as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondents.

Law Office of Christopher Sutton and Christopher Sutton for Municipal Officials for Redevelopment Reform and Assembly Member Chris Norby as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.

David Holmquist , John F. Walsh ; Strumwasser & Woocher, Gregory G. Luke , Byron F. Kahr ; and Abe Hajela for Los Angeles Unified School District and California School Boards Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.

John C. Eastman , Anthony T. Caso and Karen J. Lugo for Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence and California Alliance to Protect Private Property Rights as Amici Curiae.


OPINION

WERDEGAR, J.

Responding to a declared state fiscal emergency, in the summer of 2011 the Legislature enacted two measures intended to stabilize school funding by reducing or eliminating the diversion of property tax revenues from school districts to the state's community redevelopment agencies. (Assem. Bill Nos. 26 & 27 (2011-2012 1st Ex. Sess.) enacted as Stats. 2011, 1st Ex. Sess. 2011-2012, chs. 5-6 (hereafter Assembly...

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