California Court of Appeal

In a challenge to a city's plan to fluoridate its drinking water with hydrofluorosilicic acid, judgment in favor of defendant-City is affirmed where plaintiff cannot state a cause of action for violations of fundamental constitutional rights or a violation of Penal Code section 374.8.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/12/2005
• Published 09/12/2005

Judges

• HALLER, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Blumenthal & Markham and Norman B. Blumenthal, La Jolla, David R. Markham and Kyle R. Nordrehaug, La Jolla, CA, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey R. Epp, City Attorney, Jennifer K. McCain, Assistant City Attorney; Hogan Guiney Dick and Michael M. Hogan, San Diego, CA, for Defendant and Respondent City of Escondido., Bill Lockyer, Atty. Gen., Thomas R. Yanger, Asst. Atty. Gen., John H. Sanders, Gregory M. Cribbs and Karen L. Fried, Deputy Attys. Gen., for Defendant and Respondent Dept. of Health Services.