ARDON v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES

No. S223876.

62 Cal.4th 1176 (2016)

199 Cal. Rptr. 3d 743

366 P.3d 996

ESTUARDO ARDON, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

Decided March 17, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Noreen S. Vincent and Beverly A. Cook , Assistant City Attorney; Colantuono, Highsmith & Whatley, Michael G. Colantuono , Holly O. Whatley , Amy C. Sparrow and Tiana J. Murillo for Defendant and Appellant.

Edward J. McIntyre and Leah S. Strickland for San Diego County Bar Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Dennis J. Herrera , City Attorney (San Francisco), Christine Van Aken , Chief of Appellate Litigation, Paul Zarefsky and Warren Metlitzky , Deputy City Attorneys, for League of California Cities and California State Association of Counties as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, Kira L. Klatchko ; Best Best & Krieger and Irene S. Zurko for International Municipal Lawyers Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz, Francis M. Gregorek , Rachele R. Rickert , Marisa C. Livesay ; Chimicles & Tikellis, Timothy N. Mathews ; Cuneo Gilbert & Laduca, Sandra W. Cuneo ; Tostrud Law Group and Jon A. Tostrud for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

In civil discovery proceedings during the course of litigation between plaintiff Estuardo Ardon and defendant City of Los Angeles (City), the trial court determined that certain documents City possessed were privileged under the attorney-client privilege or the privilege...

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