Eversheds Sutherland has filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the 550 members of the Council On State Taxation (COST) on an important issue as to whether a California imposition of certain local taxes is required to be passed by a two-thirds vote of the California legislature, or a simple majority. City and County of San Francisco v. All Persons Interested in the Matter of Proposition C. The case is pending in the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, on appeal from a judgment of the San Francisco County Superior Court holding that a special tax imposed by initiative requires for passage only a simple majority, and not a two-thirds, vote. The amicus brief urges the Court to adopt the well-reasoned arguments of the appellants that both Proposition 13 and Proposition 218 require passage by a two-thirds vote and that nothing in the California Supreme Court’s decision in California Cannabis Coalition v. City of Upland (2017) 3 Cal.5th 924 alters that result.
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