Supreme Court of California

A court of appeal judgment upholding a decision withholding Proposition 77 from an election ballot is reversed where the error committed by the proponents of the proposition did not justify the action of the lower courts in withholding the proposition from the election ballot.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/16/2006
• Published 02/20/2006

Judges

• GEORGE, C.J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Daniel M. Kolkey, G. Charles Nierlich and Rebecca Justice Lazarus, San Francisco, for Petitioners., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros, State Solicitor General, James M. Humes, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Louis R. Mauro, Assistant Attorney General, Richard M. Frank, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Christopher E. Krueger, Leslie R. Lopez, Douglas J. Woods, Zackery P. Morazzini, Vickie P. Whitney and Susan K. Leach, Deputy Attorneys General, for Real Party in Interest Bill Lockyer., Olson, Hagel & Fishburn, Deborah B. Caplan, Lance H. Olson, Sacramento, and Richard C. Miadich, for Real Party in Interest Californians for Fair Representation-No on 77., Knox, Lemmon and Anapolsky, Thomas S. Knox, Angela Schrimpde La Vergne and Glen C. Hansen, Sacramento, for Real Party in Interest Bruce McPherson, Secretary of State., Linda A. Cabatic, Sacramento, for Real Party in Interest Geoff Brandt, Acting State Printer for the State of California.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for Respondent.