Rumford v. City of Berkeley

Opinion

NEWMAN, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment that mandates the City of Berkeley to remove traffic barriers from over 40 streets. The action was filed by several individuals and Citizens for Legal Action Against the Barricades, an unincorporated association. Other individuals and Berkeleyans for Fair Traffic Management (another unincorporated association) were allowed to intervene. The City and interveners have appealed from the grant of mandate; plaintiffs have cross-appealed, inter alla, from denial of their motion for attorneys’ fees.1

We must decide whether Berkeley had authority to…