CALIFORNIA BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSN. v. CITY OF SAN JOSE

No. S212072.

61 Cal.4th 435 (2015)

189 Cal. Rptr. 3d 475

351 P.3d 974

CALIFORNIA BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CITY OF SAN JOSE et al., Defendants and Appellants. AFFORDABLE HOUSING NETWORK OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY et al., Interveners and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

June 15, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Berliner Cohen,   Andrew L. Faber,   Thomas P. Murphy ; Richard Doyle, City Attorney, Nora Frimann, Assistant City Attorney and Margo Laskowska, Deputy City Attorney, for Defendants and Appellants.

Burke, Williams & Sorensen and Thomas B. Brown for League of California Cities and California State Association of Counties as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Edward C. DuMont, State Solicitor General, John A. Saurenman, Assistant Attorney General, Janill L. Richards, Deputy State Solicitor General, Daniel L. Siegel and Christiana Tiedemann, Deputy Attorneys General, for Attorney General as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Richard A. Rothschild,   KeAndra Dodds and Navneet K. Grewal for National Housing Law Project, Public Advocates, Public Counsel and Western Center on Law and Poverty as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Michael Timothy Iglesias for Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good, Corey Cook, Elizabeth S. Anderson, Peter Marcuse, Dr. Patrick Sharkey, Susan Eaton, Carolina K. Reid, Dr. Mark Santow, Camille Z. Charles, Elizabeth J. Mueller, James A. Kushner, Rigel C. Oliveri, William P. Quigley, David Rusk, Janis M. Breidenbach, Peter Dreier, J. Rosie Tighe, Victoria Basolo, Stephen Menendian, John A. Powell, Tracy K'Meyer, Philip Tegeler, James J. Kelly, Jr., Gregory D. Squires, Peter W. Salsich, Jr., Florence Wagman Roisman, Nico Calavita, Gerald S. Dickinson, Thomas M. Shapiro, Dan Immergluck, Myron Orfield, Jr., Timothy M. Mulvaney, George Lipsitz, Sarah Schindler, Michael P. Seng, John Goering, Joe Feagin, Nancy Denton, Kathleen C. Engel, John Mollenkopf, Gary Dymski, Gary Orfield, Mark L. Roark, Todd Swanstrom, William M. Wiecek and Susan D. Bennett as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Fenwick & West, Ryan J. Marton,   Sebastian E. Kaplan and Julia M. Kolibachuk for Silicon Valley Leadership Group and Working Partnership USA as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Law Foundation of Silicon Valley Public Interest Law Firm, Kyra Kazantzis,   James F. Zahradka II,   Melissa A. Morris; The Public Interest Law Project California Affordable Housing Law Project, Michael Rawson; Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Colleen Bal,   Corina I. Cacovean; and L. David Nefouse for Interveners and Appellants.

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, Rutan & Tucker, David P. Lanferman,   James G. Higgins; Pacific Legal Foundation, Damien M. Schiff,   Anthony L. Francois; Nick Cammarota; and Paul Campos for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Paul B. Campos for Building Industry Association of the Bay Area as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

June Babiracki Barlow and Neil Kain for California Association of REALTORS as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Devala A. Janardan and Thomas J. Ward for National Association of Home Builders as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

Health and Safety Code section 50003, subdivision (a), currently provides: "The Legislature finds and declares that ... there exists within the urban and rural areas of the state a serious shortage of decent, safe, and sanitary housing which persons and families of low or moderate income ... can afford...

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