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CITY & COUNTY OF S.F. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket Nos. S.F. 18442, 18443.

38 Cal.2d 156 (1951)

238 P.2d 581

THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Respondent. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

December 18, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dion R. Holm, City Attorney, and Norman Sanford Wolff, Deputy City Attorney, for Petitioners in S.F. No. 18442.

Frank J. Hennessy and Kay Kimmell, United States Attorneys, William S. Tyson, United States Solicitor, Bessie Margolin, Assistant United States Solicitor, Kenneth C. Robertson, Regional Attorney, James F. Scott, Senior United States Attorney, Fred N. Howser and Edmund G. Brown, Attorneys General, Hartwell H. Linney, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Wilmer W. Morse and James E. Sabine, Deputy Attorneys General, Sullivan, Roche, Johnson & Farraher, Long & Levitt, George Rugland, Knight, Boland & Riordan, F. Eldred Boland, John H. Riordan and John H. Riordan, Jr., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners in S.F. No. 18442.

Knight, Boland & Riordan, F. Eldred Boland, John H. Riordan and John H. Riordan, Jr. for Petitioner in S.F. No. 18443.

Milton Marks and Milton Marks, Jr., for Respondents.

SHENK, J.

The petitioners seek a writ prohibiting the enforcement of an order of the respondent superior court for the inspection of documents and data claimed to be in the records of official proceedings conducted by the Civil Service Commission of the City and County of San Francisco. An alternative writ was issued.

In September, 1949, several hundred employees of the city and county, representing as well other employees similarly

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