California Court of Appeal

A Code of Civil Procedure section 526a taxpayer action may be brought to compel the state to discharge its duty under the Prison Inmate Labor Initiative of 1990, to require a private sector manufacturer's payment of prevailing wages to inmates, given the state's right to a percentage of inmates wages to defray expenses of their room and board.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/27/2003
• Published 01/27/2003

Judges

•  McCONNELL, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Law Offices of Robert Berke, Robert Berke, Joseph A. Pertel, Santa Monica;  Bahan & Herold, Della Bahan and Janet Herold, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• McKeown Price, Francis M. McKeown, Berkeley, and Thomas S. Clifton, San Francisco, Defendants and Respondents.