California Court of Appeal

Determination that a housing development project was a public work for purposes of being subject to California's Prevailing Wage Law is reversed where the determination was based on an erroneous application of former Labor Code section 1720(a), and plaintiff-developer paid all demolition and construction costs with private funds.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/21/2005
• Published 12/21/2005

Judges

• HAERLE, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Andrew Biel Sabey,Morrison & Foerster, Walnut Creek, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Lynn Hutchins, Goldfarb & Lipman, Oakland, CA, Amicus Curiae for Appellant The California Redevelopment Assoc., Dennis B. Cook, Cook Brown LLP, Sacramento, CA, Amicus curiae for Appellant Beutler Corporation.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher W. Frick, Office of the Director-Legal Unit, Department of Industrial Relations, for Defendant-Respondent Chuck Cake., John J. Davis, Davis, Cowell & Bowe, San Francisco, for Defendant-Respondent Trico Pipes., Lisa Win-Ning Pau,Davis, Cowell & Bowe LLP, San Francisco, for Defendant-Respondent Plumbers and Steamfitters Local Union., Scott A. Kronland, Altshuler, Burzon Et Al., San Francisco, CA, for Defendant-Respondent IBEW Local Union No. 302., Sandra Rae Benson, Weinberg Roger & Rosenfeld, Alameda, CA, for Defendant-Respondent Carpenters Local Union No. 152., Juliet Elizabeth Cox, Richards Watson & Gershon, San Francisco, CA, for Defendant-Appellant.