Vasquez v. State of California
We have previously published two opinions in this case. In Vasquez v. State of California (2003) 105 Cal.App.4th 849, 851, 856-857(Vasquez I), we held as a matter of first impression that the State of California (the State) has a duty under Proposition 139, the voter-approved Prison Inmate Labor Initiative of 1990, to enforce a private business's duty to pay wages to inmate employees that are comparable to wages paid in the private sector, given the State's right to a percentage of their wages to defray expenses of incarceration. Court reversed a judgment entered for the State after the sustaining of a demurrer to Cristina Vasquez's taxpayer waste cause of action.
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