CONNERLY v. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
Filed
CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF
THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT
(Sacramento)
WARD CONNERLY, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, as Governor, etc., et al., Defendants and Appellants. | C050204 (Super. Ct. No. 03AS05154) |
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Sacramento County, Thomas M. Cecil, Judge. Reversed with directions.
Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Louis R. Mauro, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Catherine Van Aken and Michelle Mitchell Lopez, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendants and Appellants.
Pacific Legal Foundation, John H. Findley and Paul J. Beard II for Plaintiff and Respondent.
With the passage of Proposition 209 in 1996, California voters added section 31 to article I of the California Constitution (hereafter article I, section 31), outlawing all state discrimination or preferences based on race, gender or national origin. In 2003, the Legislature responded by enacting Government Code section 8315,[1] which attempted to graft onto article I, section 31 a definition of â€