California Court of Appeal

A decision by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) that certain public utilities must require the payment of prevailing wages to workers on energy utility construction projects is annulled in part where, although the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) did not preempt the decision, the PUC failed to proceed in the manner required by law in that it violated its own procedural rules.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/26/2006
• Published 06/26/2006

Judges

• CROSKEY, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen E. Pickett,James M. Lehrer, Rosemead;  O'Melveny & Myers, Gordon E. Krischer, Newport Beach, and Joshua A. Shapiro, Los Angeles, for Petitioner., W. Davis Smith and Georgetta J. Baker for San Diego Gas & Electric Company and Southern California Gas Company as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin & Demain and Scott A. Kronland, San Francisco, for Real Party in Interest State Building and Construction Trades Council of California, AFL-CIO., Reich, Adell, Crost & Cvitan, Alexander B. Cvitan and Andrew L. Birnbaum, Los Angeles, for Real Party in Interest Southern California District Council of Laborers., Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, Sandra R. Benson, Pasadena, Patricia M. Gates and Roberta D. Perkins, Oakland, for Real Party in Interest Northern California Basic Crafts Alliance., Adams Broadwell Joseph & Cardozo, Marc D. Joseph and Gloria D. Smith, South San Francisco, for Real Parties in Interest California State Pipe Trades Council and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1245.


• For Appellees:
  
• Randolph L. Wu, Dale Holzschuh, San Francisco, and Darwin E. Farrar for Respondent.