People Ex Rel. Air Resources Board v. Superior Court

Procedural History

The People of the State of California ex rel. State of California Air Resources Board (CARS) petitioned this court for a writ of prohibition directed to the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Los Angeles and Eugene E. Sax, as judge pro tempore of the superior court, respondents (respondents). Western Oil and Gas Association, a nonprofit corporation et al., are the real parties in interest (WOGA). We denied the petition without hearing. The Supreme Court granted CARB’s petition for hearing and transferred the matter to itself. It then retransferred the case to this court, directing us to “issue an alternative writ of mandate commanding the Los Angeles County Superior Court to vacate all of its orders in action No. C-246284, entitled Western Oil and Gas Association et al. v. California Air Resources Board, made subsequent to the referral to the Chairperson of the Judi cial Council of the declaration of disqualification of Honorable Eugene E. Sax, judge pro tempore, filed in that action, or to show cause before the Court of Appeal why it should not do so in light of Code of Civil Procedure section 170, subdivision 5. [H]…