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CASTRO v. STATE OF CALIFORNIA

Docket No. L.A. 29693.

2 Cal.3d 223 (1970)

466 P.2d 244

85 Cal. Rptr. 20

GENOVEVA CASTRO et al., Plaintiffs-Petitioners and Appellants, v. STATE OF CALIFORNIA et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

March 24, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Don B. Kates, Jr., James D. Lorenz, Jr., Gary Bellow, Carol Ruth Silver, Diane Delevett, Chaparro, Perez & Buckley, A.L. Wirin, Fred Okrand and Laurence Sperber for Plaintiffs-Petitioners and Appellants.

Gerald L. Rosen as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs-Petitioners and Appellants.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Charles A. Barrett, Assistant Attorney General, Sanford N. Gruskin, Deputy Attorney General, John D. Maharg, County Counsel, and Edward H. Gaylord, Assistant County Counsel, for Defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

SULLIVAN, J.

In this case we are called upon to determine whether that portion of article II, section 1 of the California Constitution which conditions the right to vote upon an ability to read the English language is constitutional as applied to persons who, in all other respects qualified to vote, are literate in Spanish but not in English. As we explain, infra, we have concluded that the challenged provision, as...

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