California Court of Appeal

A water right holder facing license revocation by defendant water board is deprived of due process of law when the revocation is being prosecuted by the same attorney who simultaneously acted as legal advisor to defendant in an unrelated administrative proceeding.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/12/2007
• Published 07/12/2007

Judges

• BUTZ, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Tom Greene and Mary E. Hackenbracht, Assistant Attorneys General, and Matthew J. Goldman, Deputy Attorney General, for Defendant and Appellant., Manuela Albuquerque, City Attorney (Berkeley), for League of California Cities and California State Association of Counties as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Somach, Simmons & Dunn, Stuart L. Somach, Kristen T. Castãnos, Sacramento, and Kanwarjit S. Dua and Daniel Kelly, San Francisco, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Diepenbrock Harrison, Michael V. Brady, Sacramento, Jon D. Rubin and Sean K. Hungerford for San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority and Westlands Water District as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.