REGENTS OF UNIV. OF CAL. v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. S069688.

85 Cal.Rptr.2d 257 (1999)

976 P.2d 808

20 Cal.4th 509

The REGENTS OF the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA et al., Petitioners, v. The SUPERIOR COURT of the City and County of San Francisco, Respondent; Tim Molloy et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

June 1, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Cynthia J. Larsen, Sacramento, Adam Gutride and Lynn Trinka Ernce, Sacramento, for Petitioner Gray Davis, as Governor.

James E. Hoist; John F. Lundberg; Gary Morrison; Jeffrey A. Blair; and Christopher M. Patti for Petitioner the Regents of the University of California.

No appearance for Respondent.

ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Mark D. Rosenbaum, Daniel P. Tokaji, Peter Eliasberg, Los Angeles; ACLU Foundation of Northern California, Edward Chen; Karl Manheim, Los Angeles; James E. Wheaton; Elizabeth Pritzker, Oakland; Beth H. Parker; Juhu Thukral; Eva J. Paterson, San Francisco; and Michael Harris for Real Parties in Interest.

Steinhart & Falconer, Roger R. Myers and Joshua Koltun, San Francisco, for California Community News Corporation, the Copley Press, Inc., Los Angeles Times, the McClatchy Company, Press-Enterprise Company, Pulitzer Community Newspapers, Inc., San Francisco Examiner, San Jose Mercury News, California First Amendment Coalition, California Newspaper Publishers Association, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Society of Professional Journalists (Northern California Chapter) and San Francisco State University Journalism Department as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.

Rothner, Segall & Greenstone, Glenn Rothner, Pasadena and Julia Harumi Mass, for California Teachers Association, Calfiornia Faculty Association, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and Service Employees International Union as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.

Roy Ulrich, Santa Monica, for Common Cause as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.


MOSK, J.

The Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (hereafter sometimes the act), which is set out at section 11120 et seq. of the Government Code,1 governs the conduct of state bodies and imposes on such bodies various obligations, including that they must generally give prior notice of their meetings, pursuant to section 11125, and must generally cause such meetings to be open and public, pursuant to section 11123.

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