Supreme Court of California

A tenants association does not have the right to distribute its newsletter in a privately owned apartment complex under article I, section 2, subdivision (a) of the California Constitution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/30/2001
• Published 08/30/2001

Judges

• BROWN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Bartko, Zankel, Tarrant & Miller, Glenn P. Zwang and Howard L. Pearlman, San Francisco, for Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant., James S. Burling, Sacramento, and Harold E. Johnson, for Pacific Legal Foundation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant., Edward J. Sack;  Law Offices of Jo Anne M. Bernhard and Jo Anne M. Bernhard, Sacramento, for California Business Properties Association and International Council of Shopping Centers as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant., Pahl & Gosselin, Stephen D. Pahl and Karen M. Kubala, San Jose, for California Apartment Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant., De Vries & Gold, Law Offices of Robert De Vries, Carolyn Gold and Robert De Vries, San Francisco, for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent., Jonathan P. Hiatt;  Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin & Demain and Scott A. Kronland, San Francisco, for American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent.,  Alan L. Schlosser, San Francisco;  Morris D. Lipson;  Chapman, Popik & White and Susan M. Popik, San Francisco, for American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent., Michael Somers, Gerald J. Van Gemert and James Arthur Judge, Tustin, for Association of Alternative Postal Systems, Inc., Los Angeles Newspaper Group, Advertising Consultants, Inc., CIPS Marketing Group, Inc., Turtle Ridge Media Group, Inc., and National Directory Company, Inc., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent.