Cite as: 505 U. S. 1 (1992)
Opinion of the Court
improvident and unwise yet unlikely ever to be reconsidered or repealed by ordinary democratic processes. Pp. 17-18. 225 Cal. App. 3d 1259, 275 Cal. Rptr. 684, affirmed.
Blackmun, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and White, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, and Souter, JJ., joined, and in which Thomas, J., joined as to Part II-A. Thomas, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment, post, p. 18. Stevens, J., filed a dissenting opinion, post, p. 28.
Carlyle W. Hall, Jr., argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioner.
Rex E. Lee argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief were Carter G. Phillips, Mark D. Hopson, De-Witt W. Clinton, David L. Muir, and Albert Ramseyer.*
Justice Blackmun delivered the opinion of the Court. In 1978, California voters staged what has been described as a property tax revolt 1 by approving a statewide ballot
*Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the Building Industry Association of Southern California, Inc., et al. by Brent N. Rush-forth, Bruce J. Ennis, Jr., and Anthony C. Epstein; and for William K. Rentz, pro se.
Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the State of California by Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, and Robert D. Milam, Deputy Attorney General; for Pete Wilson, Governor of California, et al. by L. Michael Bogert; for the California Taxpayers' Association by Robert Joe Hull and Douglas L. Kindrick; for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association et al. by Ronald A. Zumbrun, John H. Findley, Anthony T. Caso, and Trevor A. Grimm; for the People's Advocate, Inc., et al. by Jayna P. Kapinski; and for the Washington Legal Foundation et al. by Daniel J. Popeo and John C. Scully.
Briefs of amici curiae were filed for the Senate of the State of California by Jeremiah F. Hallisey; for the American Planning Association et al. by William W. Abbott and Marilee Hanson; for the California Assessors' Association by Douglas J. Maloney and Allen A. Haim; for the International Association of Assessing Officers by James F. Gossett; and for the League of Women Voters of California by Steven C. McCracken and Robert E. Palmer.
1 See N. Y. Times, June 8, 1978, p. 23, col. 1; Washington Post, June 11, 1978, p. H1.
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