Brennan

Brennan v. Board of Supervisors

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153 Cal. App. 3d 193·1984 Cal. App. LEXIS 1768·200 Cal. Rptr. 192
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaMarch 19, 1984AO16366California1,261 words

Opinion

Opinion

Elkington, J.

Plaintiff Alison Brennan appeals from a “postjudgment order filed . . . February 2, 1982, denying [her] request for attorneys fees” which attorney fees had been sought pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 1021.5, and article VII, chapter 7, section 7.700 (hereafter section 7.700) of the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco (hereafter sometimes, City).

Section 570 of the City’s Administrative Code provides for a Ballot Simplification Committee, “which is a body of communications experts; section 5.71 of the code empowers the Committee to prepare digests for all munic ipal ballot propositions; section 5.79 simply directs that each voter information pamphlet mailed to voters contain ‘[a] copy of the digest of each measure as prepared by the Committee.’ [t] Section 5.73 of the San Francisco Administrative Code specifies the following format for all ballot proposition digests: ‘Each digest of a measure shall include four identifying subsections. These shall be entitled and shall appear in the following sequence in the ballot pamphlet in bold face: Headline, The Way it is Now, A “Yes” Vote Means, A “No” Vote means. [If] Each digest shall be limited to a…

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