California Court of Appeal

A writ of mandate, ordering the California State Department of Health Services to operate its Child Health & Disability Prevention Gateway program in a particular matter, is reversed where there is no clear, present, and ministerial duty justifying the issuance of the writ.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/15/2004
• Published 11/15/2004

Judges

• SEPULVEDA, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bill Lockyer, James Humes, Teresa Stinson, San Francisco, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lucy Quacinella, Los Angeles, Oren M. Sellstrom, Woodland, Michael Keys, Howard A. Slavitt, I-Wei Wang, San Francisco, for Respondents.