PICO NEIGHBORHOOD ASSN. v. CITY OF SANTA MONICA

No. S263972.

15 Cal.5th 395 (2023)

PICO NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. CITY OF SANTA MONICA, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

September 20, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lane Dilg , City Attorney, George Cardona , Interim City Attorney; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr. , Marcellus A. McRae , Kahn A. Scolnick , Tiaunia N. Henry and Daniel R. Adler for Defendant and Appellant.

Cole Huber and Derek P. Cole for League of California Cities and California Special Districts Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Strumwasser & Woocher, Bryce A. Gee and Caroline C. Chiappetti for The Santa Monica Transparency Project as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Haggerty as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

The Law Office of Joseph Pertel, Joseph A. Pertel ; and Christopher M. Harding for League of Women Voters of Santa Monica, Alliance of Santa Monica Latino and Black Voters, Human Relations Council Santa Monica Bay Area and Community for Excellent Public Schools as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Shenkman & Hughes, Kevin I. Shenkman , Mary R. Hughes , Andrea A. Alarcon ; Law Office of Robert Rubin, Robert Rubin ; Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho, Morris J. Baller , Laura L. Ho , Anne P. Bellows , Ginger L. Grimes ; Parris Law Firm, R. Rex Parris , Ellery S. Gordon ; Law Offices of Milton C. Grimes, Milton C. Grimes ; Schonbrun Seplow Harris & Hoffman, Paul Hoffman and John Washington for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Panish Shea & Boyle and Brian Panish for Richard Polanco, Sergio Farias, Juan Carrillo, Richard Loa and Austin Bishop as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Hogan Lovells US, Ira M. Feinberg , Erin Chapman , Zach Martinez , Patrick C. Hynds , Derek Centola and Joseph M. Charlet for FairVote as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger, Douglas E. Mirell and Michelle A. Mabugat for Sara Sadhwani, Bernard Fraga, Janelle Wong, Marisa Abrajano, Jason Casellas, Lorrie Frasure, Matthew Mendez Garcia, Christian Grose, Eric Gonzalez Juenke, Jane Junn, Taeku Lee, Gabriele Magni, Jennifer Merolla, Melissa Michelson, Jessica Lavariega Monforti, Jason Morin, Ricardo Ramírez, Paru Shah, LaFleur Stephens, Dara Strolovitch, Christopher Towler and Tom Wong as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.

UCLA Voting Rights Project, Chad W. Dunn and Sonni Waknin for Matt Barreto, Lorrie Frasure, Chelsea Jones, Natalie Masuoka, Gary Segura, Efrén Pérez and Chris Zepeda-Millán as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Keker, Van Nest & Peters, R. Adam Lauridsen and Connie P. Sung for Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles and Asian Law Alliance as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Rosenfeld Meyer & Susman and Todd W. Bonder for Oscar de la Torre as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Lowenstein & Weatherwax, Nathan Lowenstein and Kenneth J. Weatherwax for Bruce A. Wessel as Amicus Curiae.

Rob Bonta , Attorney General, Jonathan L. Wolff , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Heather Hoesterey and Kristin A. Liska , Deputy Attorneys General, for the Attorney General as Amicus Curiae.

Stephen Bosworth and L. Stevan Leonard as Amicus Curiae.


[Modification of opinion (15 Cal.5th 292; ___ Cal.Rptr.3d ___, ___ P.3d ___).]

THE COURT.—The opinion in this matter, filed on August 24, 2023, and appearing at 15 Cal.5th 292, is modified as follows:

The text of footnote 8 on page 317 [15 Cal.5th 317, advance report, fn. 8] of the opinion is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following: Under ranked choice voting, a voter ranks candidates in order of preference...

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