Experience

Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association v. Bowen (2013) 212 Cal.App.4th 1298 (depub. 2013 Cal. LEXIS 4525). On behalf of amicus curiae, successfully argued that the state Legislature cannot use the budget process to adopt bills on a majority vote that the state Constitution otherwise requires to be adopted by a two-thirds vote.

Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association v. Bowen, 212 Cal. App. 4th 1298 (2013) (depub. 2013 Cal. LEXIS 4525): On behalf of amicus curiae, successfully argued that the state Legislature cannot use the budget process to adopt bills on a majority vote that the state Constitution otherwise requires to be adopted by a two-thirds vote.