Supreme Court of California

A city charter provision prohibiting write-in voting in runoff elections for municipal offices (former section 13.102 of article XIII of the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco, since repealed) did not violate the free speech clause of the California Constitution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/07/2002
• Published 11/07/2002

Judges

• BROWN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  J. Michael Schaefer, Las Vegas, NV, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Dennis J. Herrera and Louise H. Renne, City Attorneys, Therese M. Stewart, Chief Deputy City Attorney, Thomas J. Owen, Randy Riddle, Ellen Forman, and K. Scott Dickey, Deputy City Attorneys, for Defendant and Respondent., Rockard J. Delgadillo, City Attorney (Los Angeles), Patricia V. TubertClaudia Culling and Anthony Saul Alperin, Assistant City Attorneys, for Cities of Los Angeles, Monterey and Redlands as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.