Government,
Constitutional Law,
California Supreme Court
Jun. 21, 2019
Plotting the boundary between state and local authority
The state high court provided helpful clarification of rules that balance the powers of charter cities and state entities. The ruling may also shed light on how this Supreme Court will view the occasionally conflicting roles of federal, state and tribal governments, too.
Michael G. Colantuono
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Colantuono, Highsmith & Whatley PC
Phone: (530) 432-7357
Email: mcolantuono@chwlaw.us
UC Berkeley SOL; Berkeley CA
Michael is a certified specialist in appellate law by the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization and has argued 14 cases in the California Supreme Court since 2004. The views stated here are his alone.
The division of government authority among federal, state, local and tribal governments is often contested. The boundaries among them are decided more often by case law than by the plainer language of constitutions, statutes, treaties and ordinances. The California Supreme Court's latest contribution to this law is City an...
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