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SANTA CLARA COUNTY COUNSEL ATTYS. ASSN. v. WOODSIDE

Docket No. S031593.

7 Cal.4th 525 (1994)

869 P.2d 1142

28 Cal. Rptr.2d 617

SANTA CLARA COUNTY COUNSEL ATTORNEYS ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Respondent, v. STEVEN WOODSIDE, as County Counsel, etc., Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant; COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

March 31, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, Robin B. Johansen, Joseph Remcho, Karen A. Getman and Philip C. Monrad for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant and Defendant and Appellant.

Daniel S. Hapke, Jr., Frederick J. Krebs, O'Melveny & Myers and George A. Riley as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant and for Defendant and Appellant.

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Kevin M. Fong, Edward P. Davis and J. Donald Best for Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Respondent.

Daniel F. Moss, Ann Brick, Edward M. Chen, Matthew A. Coles, Margaret C. Crosby and Alan L. Schlosser as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Respondent.

OPINION

MOSK, J.

We are asked to decide whether the right of local government employees to sue a public agency for violations of the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (MMBA, Gov. Code, § 3500 et seq.) extends to attorneys who are employed in the office of the Santa Clara County Counsel (County Counsel), or whether the duty of loyalty imposed upon these attorneys towards their client, the County of Santa Clara (County), precludes such a...

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