Supreme Court of California

In a petition for writ of mandate by nonprofit network of five community health centers and six school-based clinics in medically underserved areas of Los Angeles County, and others, challenging the Governor's use of the so-called "line-item veto" under the asserted authority of article IV, section 10(e) of the California Constitution, to further reduce funding that already had been reduced by the Legislature in its midyear adjustments to the Budget Act of 2009, the Court of Appeal's denial of the petition is affirmed as, because Article IV, section 10(e) grants the Governor the limited legislative authority to eliminate or reduce "items of appropriation," and the budget reductions here at issue were "items of appropriation" within the meaning of that constitutional provision, the Governor's exercise of line-item authority to reduce those appropriations, while approving other portions of Assembly Bill 4X 1, was consistent with his constitutional powers.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/04/2010
• Published 10/04/2010

Judges

• GEORGE

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• R. Alexander Pilmer, Edmund G. Brown Jr