ROBERTS v. CITY OF PALMDALE

Docket No. S028100.

5 Cal.4th 363 (1993)

853 P.2d 496

20 Cal. Rptr.2d 330

CHARMAINE ROBERTS, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. CITY OF PALMDALE et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

June 24, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Barbara S. Blinderman, Jonathan L. Blinderman and Jeffrey S. Cohen for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Quentin Kopp, Jonathan M. Coupal and Mark Rosenbaum as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Richards, Watson & Gershon, Pamela A. Albers, Marsha Jones Moutrie and Glenn R. Watson for Defendants and Respondents.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, Roderick E. Walston, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jan S. Stevens, Assistant Attorney General, Richard M. Frank, Deputy Attorney General, and Ariel Pierre Calonne, City Attorney (Palo Alto), as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

In this case we answer three questions. Does the California Public Records Act (Gov. Code, § 6250 et seq.) require public disclosure of a letter from the city attorney distributed to members of the city council, expressing the legal opinion of the city attorney regarding a matter pending before the council?1 Is the transmission of the written legal opinion at issue in this case a...

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