LACY v. CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO

No. A165899.

94 Cal.App.5th 238 (2023)

JAMES V. LACY et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Five.

August 8, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Chiu , City Attorney, Wayne Snodgrass and James M. Emery , Deputy City Attorneys, for Defendants and Appellants.

Keker, Van Nest & Peters, R. Adam Lauridsen , Connie P. Sung and Stephany Martinez Tiffer for Ron Hayduk, Hiroshi Motomura and Jennifer M. Chacón as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Mark S. Davies , Sheila Baynes , Kufere Laing and John Palmer for Oakland and San Diego Unified School Districts as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

ACLU Foundation of Northern California, Angélica Salceda ; ACLU Foundation of Southern California and Julia A. Gomez for Caregiver Organization as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Law Office of Chad D. Morgan and Chad D. Morgan for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Public Interest Legal Foundation, J. Christian Adams ; Lex Rex Institute and Alexander Haberbush for J. Kenneth Blackwell as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Immigration Reform Law Institute and Lorraine G. Woodwark as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.


OPINION

In 2016, San Francisco voters amended their city charter to authorize voting in local school board elections by noncitizen parents and guardians of school-age children. In 2022, after multiple school board elections in which noncitizens voted, the underlying lawsuit was brought alleging this charter...

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