Brown v. Hite

Petitioners, judges of the municipal courts of the Los Angeles and Antelope Judicial Districts, seek a writ of mandate ordering respondent, the registrar of voters for both judicial districts, to omit from the notice of election and from the ballots to be used in the 1966 direct primary election the offices which they hold.

This case presents issues in many respects similar to those discussed in Caldwell v. Bruning, S. F. 22197, ante, page 111 [48 Cal.Rptr. 849, 410 P.2d 353], filed this day, and we have concluded that the offices held by Judges Brown, Higgins, Saeta, and Wright shoulchbe…