California Court of Appeal

In consolidated appeals regarding bills which required redevelopment agencies throughout the state to contribute portions of their property tax increment funding for the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 fiscal years into supplemental educational revenue augmentation funds (SERAF's) to be used for financing K-12 education in redevelopment areas, judgments in: 1) CRA v. Matosantos I is reversed, where trial court erred in awarding attorney fees to the prevailing plaintiffs in connection with a challenge to an earlier legislative attempt to reallocate property tax funding from redevelopment agencies to the state; and 2) CRA v. Matosantos II and County v. Matosantos are affirmed, where the Legislature acted within its constitutional authority in directing redevelopment agencies to deposit portions of their property tax funding into SERAF's.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/24/2013
• Published 01/24/2013

Judges

• HULL

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel