Sierra Club v. City of Hayward
California Supreme Court
Nicholas C. Arguimbau, E. Clement Shute, Jr., .Mark I. Weinberger and Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
MOSK, J.
In this administrative mandamus proceeding (Code Civ. Proc., § 1094.5) we are asked for the first time to construe the provisions of the California Land Conservation Act of 1965 (Gov. Code, § 51200 et seq., hereinafter called the Williamson Act) that authorize cancellation of land preservation contracts made pursuant to that act. The Sierra Club and others (Sierra Club)1 appeal from a judgment denying a writ of mandamus to set aside the Hayward City Council’s partial cancellation of a Williamson Act agreement between the city and landowners Y. Charles and Helen Soda.
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