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P0990 Litigation that resulted in the finding that a taxpayer has standing to sue the State to enforce the terms of Proposition 139, relating to the way prisoners are paid when their labor is sold to private businesses, vindicated important public interests even though plaintiff may also have had private concerns, and since the public entity that could have enforced the law was the very one sued for not complying with it private enforcement was necessary, so plaintiff was entitled to fees under the private attorney general statute (Code of Civil Procedure section 1021.5).
VASQUEZ v STATE (Prison Wages) 138 CA4 550 [See: CCP 1021.5; Vasquez v State 105 CA4 849, P/AT 3/01]
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