Curtis v. Board of Supervisors

Opinion

TQBRINER, J.

When persons owning a majority of assessed valuation of land within the proposed City of Rancho Palos Verdes filed a written protest, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, pursuant to Government Code section 34311, refused to call an incorporation election. The crux of petitioners’ plea to us is that section 34311 violates the Constitution; upon this basis they seek mandate to compel the board to resume incorporation proceedings. We have concluded that the section is, indeed, unconstitutional under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United…