Supreme Court of California

A judgment ordering a city into binding arbitration of a dispute with a firefighters union is reversed where a rule changing the method by which applicants are selected for promotion in the fire department falls within an exception to a city charter provision's binding arbitration requirement since the rule was reasonably related to the goal of ensuring compliance with antidiscrimination laws.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/18/2006
• Published 05/18/2006

Judges

• MORENO, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• McCarthy, Johnson & Miller, Diane Sidd-Champion, Daniela I. Kraiem, San Francisco, and Raphael Shannon for Plaintiff and Appellant., John R. Tennant, Jr., San Jose, for San Jose Police Officers' Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., Woodley & McGillivary and Thomas A. Woodley for International Association of Fire Fighters as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., Wylie McBride Jesinger Platten & Renner and Christopher E. Platten, San Jose, for California Professional Firefighters as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, Vincent A. Harrington and M. Suzanne Murphy, Oakland, for San Francisco Police Officers Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Dennis J. Herrera, City Attorney, Wayne K. Snodgrass, Burke E. Delventhal, Molly S. Stamp and Linda M. Ross, Deputy City Attorneys, for Defendant and Respondent., Alisa R. Fong and Jennifer B. Henning for League of California Cities and California State Association of Counties as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.