1. Home
  2. Browse Decisions
  3. F.Supp.
  4. 958 F.Supp.
  5. 958 F.Supp. 1446 (1997)
 

BATES v. JONES

No. C 95-02638 CW.

958 F.Supp. 1446 (1997)

Tom BATES; Edward H. Lyman; Richard Sterling; Ardis Graham; Richard D. Lewis; Lawrence J. Buchalter; Jonathan Browning; Rachel Sherman; Martha M. Escutia; Sylvia Hernandez; Ana Rosa Pena; Claudia Navar; Barbara J. Friedman; Susan Zarakov; and Harriet Sculley, Plaintiffs, v. Bill JONES, Secretary of State of the State of California; Bradley J. Clark, Alameda County Registrar of Voters; and Conny McCormack, Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters, Defendants. Peter F. Schabarum and Lewis K. Uhler, Intervenors.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

April 23, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Remcho, Remcho Johansen & Purcell, San Francisco, CA, for Tom Bates, Edward H. Lyman, Richard D. Lewis, Lawrence J. Buchalter, Jonathan Browning, Rachel Sherman.

Sharon L. Browne, Deborah J. La Fetra, Victor J. Wolski, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, CA, for Peter F. Schabarum, Lewis K. Uhler, Lee A. Phelps, National Tax Limitation Committee, Alliance of California Taxpayers & Involved Voters.

Karen Leaf, CA State Attorney General, Sacramento, CA, for Bill Jones.

Kelvin H. Booty, Jr., County of Alameda Counsel's Office, Oakland, CA, for Bradley J. Clark.

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

WILKEN, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

Do the lifetime legislative term limits provisions of the California Constitution, as enacted by Proposition 140 in 1990, violate the United States Constitution? This question implicates some of the core values of our American system of government: majority rule, minority protections, the right to vote, the autonomy of the States, and the role of the federal courts in...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases