Pacific Bell Telephone Co. v. County of Placer

Filed 5/29/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT

(Placer) ----

PACIFIC BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY et al., C101678

Plaintiffs and Appellants, (Super. Ct. No.

S-CV-0050925)

v.

COUNTY OF PLACER et al.,

Defendants and Respondents.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Placer County, Trisha J. Hirashima, Judge. Affirmed.

Munger, Tolles & Olson, Benjamin J. Horwich, Gabriel M. Bronshteyn, Ginger D. Anders, Andra Lim, Faye Paul Teller, Kyle Groves; Capitol Law and Policy and Eric J. Miethke for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Gregory S. Warner and Nataliya Shtevnina, County Counsel, for Defendant and Respondent County of Placer.

1 Under article XIII, section 19 of the California Constitution (article XIII, section 19), property owned by utility companies is assessed at the state level and “shall be subject to taxation to the same extent and in the same manner as other property.” Appellants—Pacific Bell Telephone Company, AT&T Mobility LLC, AT&T Corp., Sprint Spectrum, L.P., T-Mobile West LLC, and CenturyLink Communications LLC—are utility companies operating in the…