Supreme Court of California

In an administrative proceeding to revoke a water license, it does not violate the license holder's constitutional right to due process of law for the agency attorney prosecuting the matter before the State Water Resources Control Board to simultaneously serve as an advisor to that board on an unrelated matter.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/09/2009
• Published 02/09/2009

Judges

• KENNARD, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Gordon Burns, Deputy State Solicitor General, Tom Greene and Janet Gaard, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Mary E. Hackenbracht, Assistant Attorney General, and Matthew J. Goldman, Deputy Attorney General, for Defendant and Appellant., Manuela Albuquerque, Berkeley, and Patrick Whitnell, Milpitas, for League of California Cities and California State Association of Counties as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Peter H. Mixon, Sacramento, and S. Kingsley Macomber, for California Public Employees' Retirement System as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Michael Asimow, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Somach Simmons & Dunn, Stuart L. Somach, Kristen T. Castãnos, Kanwarjit S. Dua and Daniel Kelly, Sacramento, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Diepenbrock Harrison, Michael V. Brady, Jon D. Rubin, David A. DiepenbrockValerie C. Kincaid and Sean K. Hungerford, Sacramento, for San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority and Westlands Water District as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent., Downey Brand, Kevin M. O'Brien, Maja K. Haium and Andrea P. Clark, Sacramento, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.