Court Opinion

ID: 9721733
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 09:07:13.81714+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:28.315147
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ROUSE, J.
I respectfully dissent.
*956In my opinion, the appropriate procedure here is not to reverse the judgment but to dismiss the appeal as moot. Since the trial court’s decisions, the California Supreme Court has decided Marina Point, Ltd. v. Wolfson (1982) 30 Cal.3d 721 [180 Cal.Rptr. 496, 640 P.2d 115] which, it appears, would have a significant bearing upon both the preemption issue (see Civ. Code., § 52, subd. (e)), and the CEQA issue (see Bozung v. Local Agency Formation Com. (1975) 13 Cal.3d 263, 277, fin. 16 [118 Cal.Rptr. 249, 529 P.2d 1017]). The impact of that decision was, of course, not considered in the trial court and it has not been adequately briefed here. Moreover, since no appeal was taken from the injunction against the superseding ordinance, nothing we decide in this case can have any direct impact upon the current legal situation in Santa Clara County. Accordingly, I would dismiss the appeal as moot.