Consulting Engineers & Land Surveyors of California, Inc. v. Professional Engineers in California Government

Opinion

MORENO, J.

In Professional Engineers in California Government v. Kempton (2007) 40 Cal.4th 1016 [56 Cal.Rptr.3d 814, 155 P.3d 226] (Kempton), we held that Proposition 35, which expressly removed a constitutional restriction on the ability of state agencies to contract with private firms for architectural and engineering services on public works projects, also impliedly repealed certain regulatory statutes pertaining to private contracting that were derived from the constitutional provision. The present case involves two participants from Kempton.1 The question presented here is whether…