May 23 Is Date for Oral Arguments: California High-Speed Rail Authority et al. v. The Superior Court of Sacramento County
The 3rd Appellate District Court for the State of California announced on April 28 that oral arguments in California High-Speed Rail Authority et al. v. The Superior Court of Sacramento County are scheduled for Friday, May 23.
This is the case which started when California Governor Jerry Brown, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, California Treasurer Bill Lockyer, and the California High-Speed Rail Authority asked the California Supreme Court under an extraordinary petition to allow the state to issue (sell) Proposition 1A bonds to fund California High-Speed Rail. (In October 2013, a Sacramento County Superior Court judge had blocked the sale of the bonds through two decisions ruling that the California High-Speed Rail Authority has failed to comply with Prop 1A.) The California Supreme Court wasn’t impressed: it sent the Governor’s petition to the appeals court where it belonged.
Track the case at this link: California High-Speed Rail Authority et al. v. The Superior Court of Sacramento County – Case Number C075668
Supporting the Rule of Law:
Members of Citizens for California High-Speed Rail Accountability (CCHSRA) |
County of Kings |
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association |
County of Kern |
Eugene Voiland |
Kings County Water District |
Union Pacific Railroad Company |
First Free Will Baptist Church in Bakersfield |
Supporting Governor Brown and the California High-Speed Rail Authority:
Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board |
San Mateo County Transit District |
Metropolitan Transportation Commission (San Francisco Bay Area) |
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority |
City and County of San Francisco |
State Building and Construction Trades Council of California, AFL-CIO |
Cathleen Galgiani, member of the California State Legislature |
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority |
Southern California Association of Governments |