In Riskin v. Downtown Los Angeles Property Owners' Association, published March 17, 2022, the Second District Court of Appeal, Division 3 reversed an award of attorney fees under the California Public Records Act. After the defendant association produced 46 e-mails in response to a CPRA request and asserted others were exempt from production, the plaintiff…
In Getz v. Superior Court (County of El Dorado), published December 13, 2021, a divided panel of the Third District Court of Appeal reversed in part and affirmed in part a trial court decision denying writ relief in a California Public Records Act case. The petitioner requested from the real party county records between the county…
In Voice of San Diego v. Superior Court (County of San Diego), published July 16, 2021, the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division 1 declined to issue a writ of mandate disturbing a trial court's decision on a California Public Records Act petition. The petitioner news media organizations made a CPRA request for records showing the…
In Collondrez v. City of Rio Vista, published March 16, 2021, the First District Court of Appeal, Division 3 affirmed in part and reversed in part a trial court's ruling on an anti-SLAPP special motion to strike. When the plaintiff was a police officer, he received a notice of intent to impose discipline for allegedly falsifying…
In Stevenson v. City of Sacramento, published October 6, 2020, the Third District Court of Appeal affirmed a trial court order conditioning the grant of a request for a preliminary injunction under the California Public Records Act on posting a $2,349.50 undertaking. The plaintiffs submitted CPRA requests to the defendant city for e-mails scheduled for automatic…
In The California Gun Rights Foundation v. Superior Court (Department of Justice), published May 29, 2020, the Second District Court of Appeal, Division 3 issued a writ of mandate reversing a trial court's order transferring the underlying action for lack of jurisdiction. The petitioner brought a California Public Records Act writ proceeding in the Los Angeles…
In National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter v. City of Hayward, published May 28, 2020, the California Supreme Court reversed an appellate court decision allowing a city to shift the cost of editing exempt material out of police body camera footage requested under the California Public Records Act. At issue was interpretation of Government…
In Carlsbad Police Officer's Association v. City of Carlsbad (ACLU), published May 18, 2020, the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division 1 reversed an order conditioning the intervention in a reverse California Public Records Act petition of the ACLU and various media organizations on the striking of the intervenors' prayers for attorney fees under Code of…
In Becerra v. Superior Court (First Amendment Coalition), published January 29, 2020, the First District Court of Appeal, Division 3 affirmed a trial court decision ordering the California Department of Justice and California Attorney General to disclose police officer related records under Penal Code section 832.7 in response to a California Public Records Act request. …
In City of Los Angeles v. Metropolitan Water Dist. of So. Cal., West Basin Municipal Water Dist., and The San Diego Union-Tribune, LLC, published November 19, 2019, the Second District Court of Appeal, Division 8 affirmed in part and reversed in part a trial court decision awarding fees in a reverse-CPRA action. MWD, a cooperative water…