California Court of Appeal

The superior court's grant of a peremptory writ of mandate, compelling defendant to adopt as part of the California Plumbing Code provisions of the Uniform Plumbing Code allowing the use of cross-linked polyethylene pipes, is reversed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/15/2004
• Published 12/15/2004

Judges

• CROSKEY, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Andrea Lynn Hoch, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Louis R. Mauro, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Gary Tavetian, Christine Sproul, Ramon M. De La Guardia and Christopher E. Krueger, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendants and Appellants., Rockard J. Delgadillo, City Attorney (Los Angeles), Jack Brown, Assistant City Attorney, Dennis J. Herrera, City Attorney (San Francisco) and Kate Herrmann Stacy, Deputy City Attorney, for City of Los Angeles and City and County of San Francisco as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants., Adams, Broadwell, Joseph & Cardozo, Daniel L. Cardozo, South San Francisco, Richard T. Drury, San Francisco, and Thomas E. Enslow for Sierra Club, Communities for a Better Environment, Center for Environmental Health, Planning and Conservation League, California Professional Firefighters Association, Consumer Federation of California and California Pipe Trades Council as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants., J. Scott Kuhn for Communities for a Better Environment as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants., Brown, Winfield & Canzoneri, Brant H. Dveirin and Jack L. Henningsen, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard and Jonathan P. Hobbs, Sacramento, for California Building Officials as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent., Hatch & Parent and Lisabeth D. Rothman, Los Angeles, for California Building Industry Association and Building Industry Legal Defense Foundation as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.