31 Cited authorities

  1. Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn. v. City of La Habra

    25 Cal.4th 809 (Cal. 2001)   Cited 271 times
    Holding that city's continued imposition and collection of a tax without voter approval was a continuous violation, and therefore limitations period began anew with each collection and did not bar claims for declaratory and mandamus relief
  2. Amador Valley Jt. Un. High Sch. v. State Bd. of Equal

    22 Cal.3d 208 (Cal. 1978)   Cited 409 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Finding that although initiative measure's title and summary were technically imprecise, they substantially complied with the law
  3. Coalition for Economic Equity v. Wilson

    122 F.3d 692 (9th Cir. 1997)   Cited 213 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that while California's Proposition 209 mentions race and gender, it does not logically classify persons by race and gender
  4. Coral Construction, Inc. v. City and County of San Francisco

    50 Cal.4th 315 (Cal. 2010)   Cited 141 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Noting that the United States Supreme Court has "approvingly referred to [California's Proposition 209] as a step in direction" of ending the "governmental use of race" (citing Grutter, 538 U.S. at 342)
  5. Coal. to Defend Affirmative Action v. Brown

    674 F.3d 1128 (9th Cir. 2012)   Cited 111 times
    Holding that university official had a "fairly direct" connection to enforcing university policies
  6. Coalition v. City of Upland

    3 Cal.5th 924 (Cal. 2017)   Cited 80 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that we must resolve doubts about the initiative power in its favor and "narrowly construe provisions that would burden or limit the exercise of that power"
  7. Associated Home Builders etc., Inc. v. City of Livermore

    18 Cal.3d 582 (Cal. 1976)   Cited 256 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that state law, which required any ordinance changing zoning or imposing specified land use restrictions can be enacted only after noticed hearing before the city's planning commission and legislative body, does not apply to initiative enacting same type of ordinance
  8. Legislature v. Eu

    54 Cal.3d 492 (Cal. 1991)   Cited 166 times
    Holding as grammatically severable “or serving in” from “elected to or serving in the Legislature on or after November 1, 1990”
  9. Rossi v. Brown

    9 Cal.4th 688 (Cal. 1995)   Cited 73 times
    Holding that initiative provisions do not except measures imposing a tax from the initiative power
  10. Connerly v. State Personnel Board

    92 Cal.App.4th 16 (Cal. Ct. App. 2001)   Cited 59 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Invalidating various provisions requiring the "selective dissemination of information" to favored groups and granting minorities and women preference in hiring
  11. Section 10

    Cal. Const. art. II § 10   Cited 799 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Forbidding the Legislature from amending enactments made by voter initiative if the amendments are inconsistent with said initiative
  12. Section 1

    Cal. Const. art. IV § 1   Cited 176 times
    Reserving to the people of California “the powers of initiative and referendum”
  13. Section 9

    Cal. Const. art. II § 9   Cited 71 times

    (a) The referendum is the power of the electors to approve or reject statutes or parts of statutes except urgency statutes, statutes calling elections, and statutes providing for tax levies or appropriations for usual current expenses of the State. (b) A referendum measure may be proposed by presenting to the Secretary of State, within 90 days after the enactment date of the statute, a petition certified to have been signed by electors equal in number to 5 percent of the votes for all candidates

  14. Section 31

    Cal. Const. art. I § 31   Cited 67 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Barring discrimination by the state based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting
  15. Section 1

    Cal. Const. art. II § 1   Cited 49 times

    All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for their protection, security, and benefit, and they have the right to alter or reform it when the public good may require. Cal. Const. art. II § 1

  16. Section 1

    Cal. Const. art. XVI § 1   Cited 31 times

    The Legislature shall not, in any manner create any debt or debts, liability or liabilities, which shall, singly or in the aggregate with any previous debts or liabilities, exceed the sum of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000), except in case of war to repel invasion or suppress insurrection, unless the same shall be authorized by law for some single object or work to be distinctly specified therein which law shall provide ways and means, exclusive of loans, for the payment of the interest

  17. Rule 8.520 - Briefs by parties and amici curiae; judicial notice

    Cal. R. 8.520   Cited 3,160 times

    (a)Parties' briefs; time to file (1) Within 30 days after the Supreme Court files the order of review, the petitioner must serve and file in that court either an opening brief on the merits or the brief it filed in the Court of Appeal. (2) Within 30 days after the petitioner files its brief or the time to do so expires, the opposing party must serve and file either an answer brief on the merits or the brief it filed in the Court of Appeal. (3) The petitioner may file a reply brief on the merits or