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McWILLIAMS v. CITY OF LONG BEACH

No. S202037.

56 Cal.4th 613 (2013)

155 Cal. Rptr. 3d 817

JOHN W. McWILLIAMS, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. CITY OF LONG BEACH, Defendant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

April 25, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz, Francis M. Gregorek , Rachele R. Rickert , Marisa C. Livesay ; Chimicles & Tikellis, Nicholas E. Chimicles , Timothy N. Mathews ; Tostrud Law Group, Jon Tostrud ; Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca and Sandra W. Cuneo for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, Joy A. Kruse ; Lockridge Grindal Nauen , Kate Baxter-Kauf , Elizabeth R. Odette ; and Edward M. Teyssier for Consumer Action, National Association of Shareholder and Consumer Attorneys and Tax Foundation as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Robert E. Shannon , City Attorney, J. Charles Parkin , Assistant City Attorney, Monte H. Machit , Principal Deputy City Attorney; Colantuono & Levin, Michael G. Colantuono , Sandra J. Levin , Tiana J. Murillo and Jon R. di Cristina for Defendant and Respondent.

Dennis J. Herrera , City Attorney (San Francisco), Julie Van Nostern , Chief Tax Attorney, and Peter J. Keith , Deputy City Attorney, for League of California Cities and California State Association of Counties as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.

OPINION

BAXTER, J. —

Code of Civil Procedure section 313 provides that the "general procedure" for the presentation of claims for money or damages against a local government entity is prescribed by the Government Claims Act (Gov. Code, § 810 et seq.). In Ardon v. City of Los Angeles (2011) 52 Cal.4th 241, 251 [128 Cal.Rptr.3d 283,

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