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59 San Diego L. Rev. 119 (2022)
California Constitutional Law: Privacy

handle is hein.journals/sanlr59 and id is 131 raw text is: California Constitutional Law: Privacy DAVID A. CARRILLO STEPHEN M. DUVERNAY RODOLFO E. RIVERA AQUINO BRANDON V. STRACENER* TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT ......................................................... ......................... ...120 I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................... .......120 II. GENESIS OF CALIFORNIA'S CONSTITUTIONAL PRIVACY RIGHT .................122 A. Federal Privacy D octrine ..............................................................122 B. Early California Privacy Doctrine.................................................125 III. THE VOTERS INTENDED A COMPELLING PUBLIC NEED TEST ..................... 126 A. The Ballot Arguments Impose a Compelling Public Need Standard ...............................................................................126 B. The California Supreme Court Adopted a Compelling Need Test in White v. Davis ..........................................................132 C. White Did Not Endorse Absolute Privacy Rights ...........................133 IV. THE CURRENT STANDARD INVERTS AND DEFEATS PROPOSITION I1 .........134 A. The First Error: The Lucas Majority Opinion in Hill ....................135 B. The Second Error: The George Majority Opinion in Loder ..........139 C. Six Reasons the Hill-Loder Analysis Is Wrong..............................142 1. It Rewrote the Ballot Text and Ignored Clear Evidence of Voter Intent..........................................................144 2. It Violated Stare Decisis .........................................................147 3. Compelling Public Need Does Not Require Strict Scrutiny ...................................................................... .........149 4. It Conflates the Constitutional Privacy Right with the Common Law Tort ..................................................................153 * © 2022 David A. Carrillo, Stephen M. Duvernay, Rodolfo E. Rivera Aquino, and Brandon V. Stracener. David A. Carrillo is a Lecturer in Residence and the Executive Director of the California Constitution Center at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Stephen M. Duvernay and Brandon V. Stracener are attorneys in private practice and senior research fellows at the California Constitution Center. Rodolfo E. Rivera Aquino is a research fellow at the California Constitution Center. 119

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