Supreme Court of California

In an action to determine whether a project built on City lands, whose preconstruction expenses were financed in part with City funds, was subject to the prevailing wage law (pwl), the pwl does not apply in this case since no publicly funded construction was involved.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/20/2004
• Published 12/20/2004

Judges

• CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stanton, Kay & Watson and James P. Watson, San Francisco, for Foundation for Fair Contracting as Amicus Curiae., Davis, Cowell & Bowe, John J. Davis, Jr., and Andrew J. Kahn, San Francisco, for Northern California Mechanical Contractors Association, Los Angeles Chapter National Electrical Contractors Association, Air Conditioning, Refrigeration and Mechanical Contractors Association of Southern California, California Plumbing and Mechanical Contractors Association, California Sheet Metal Contractors National Association and Associated Plumbing and Mechanical Contractors Association as Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• John M. Rea, Chief Counsel, Vanessa L. Holton, Acting Chief Counsel, Steven A. McGinty, Assistant Chief Counsel, Sarah L. Cohen, Acting Assistant Chief Counsel, and Anthony Mischel, Staff Counsel, for Defendant and Appellant., Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin & Demain, Stephen P. Berzon, Scott A. Kronland, San Francisco, Dorothea K. Langsam and Victor M. Ortiz-de-Montellano for The State Building and Construction Trades Council of California, AFL-CIO as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Cox, Castle & Nicholson, John S. Miller, Jr., Los Angeles, and Dwayne P. McKenzie for Center for Contract Compliance as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, Sandra Rae Benson, Los Angeles, Ellyn Moscowitz, Oakland, and M. Suzanne Murphy for California Apprenticeship Coordinators Association, et al., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros, State Solicitor General, Andrea Lynn Hoch, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Louis R. Mauro, Assistant Attorney General, and Douglas J. Woods, Deputy Attorney General, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Simpson, Garrity & Innes, Paul V. Simpson and Ronald A. Johnstone, South San Francisco, for Engineering & Utility Contractors Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Robert E. Shannon, City Attorney, Daniel S. Murphy, Principal Deputy City Attorney, and Michelle Gardner, Deputy City Attorney, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Rutan & Tucker, M. Katherine Jenson and Mark J. Austin, Costa Mesa, for 44 California Cities and The League of California Cities as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent., Nick Cammarota for California Building Industry Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent., Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo, Robert Fried, Pleasanton, Thomas A. Lenz, Cerritos, and Alice K. Conway, Pleasanton, for Associated Builders & Contractors of Southern California, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent., Case, Knowlson, Jordan & Wright, Michael F. Wright, Los Angeles, and Armen Tamzarian for M & H Realty Partners IV L.P. as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.