2023 Writ of Mandamus

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Petitioners Alameda County Committee of Open Government and Children’s Health Defense, California Chapter, hereby apply ex parte, pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure sections 1087 and 1107, for an alternative writ of mandate directing Respondent Alameda County Board of Supervisors, and each of them, to hold a public hearing to review the local conditions in order to determine whether the local emergency and local health emergency that have been declared in the County should be terminated or to show cause in this Court why it has refused to do so. 

1.This action seeks to restore the checks and balances on which American democracy  and a representative government depend.  

2. In March 2020, Governor Newsom eliminated these necessary checks and balances at  the state level by declaring a state of emergency related to a “novel” Coronavirus, COVID-19, while  various California counties and boards of supervisors, including Respondents...

Notice to Defendant COUNTY OF ALAMEDA; ALAMEDA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS  YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF:  ALAMEDA, COUNTY COMMTTTEE OF OPEN GOVERNMENT, CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE-CALIFORNIA CHAPTER, a California 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, on its own and on behalf of its members, and MARY CATHERINE BALDI, an individual.