Legal Opinion
White v. Davis
California Supreme Court
Decided May 1, 2003No. S108099PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
GEORGE, C. J.
Article IV, section 12 of the California Constitution provides in part that “[t]he Legislature shall pass the budget bill by midnight on June 15 of each year,” but in recent years the timely adoption of the budget bill in California has proven to be the exception rather than the rule. This proceeding arises out of two taxpayer actions that were filed in the wake of budget impasses that occurred in 1997 and 1998. In the action filed in 1998, the trial court issued a preliminary injunction broadly barring the Controller from making payments from the state treasury in the…
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