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CITY OF LOS ANGELES v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. 42140.

33 Cal.App.3d 778 (1973)

109 Cal. Rptr. 365

CITY OF LOS ANGELES, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; SHIRLEY ANN FERGUSON, Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

August 1, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Roger Arnebergh, City Attorney, George J. Franscell, Assistant City Attorney, and Thomas M. Dempsey, Deputy City Attorney, for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Lacy & Lacy and Edward M. Lacy, Jr., for Real Party in Interest.

OPINION

FLEMING, J.

Personal injury action for battery by a police officer. The basic issue in this application for extraordinary writ is the extent to which police department records of its officers are discoverable in a civil action as a matter of course.

Shirley Ann Ferguson, plaintiff herein, avers she was picnicking in a Los Angeles city park on 14 December 1969 when Officer Donald W. Murphy set upon her with a club and...

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