Legal Opinion
City of Los Angeles v. City of Artesia
California Court of Appeal
Decided August 25, 1977No. Civ. 50389PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
FLEMING, J.
As aptly stated by the trial judge in his memorandum opinion, “[t]his action involves the latest chapter in the continuing saga of that remarkable governmental development universally known as the ‘Lakewood Plan’.” Pursuant to that plan defendant County of Los Angeles (County) has since 1954 contracted with numerous cities within the county limits — beginning with the City of Lakewood — to furnish them police protection, thereby eliminating the necessity for multiple independent municipal police forces and the needless duplication of cost and effort that such multiple police…
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