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RANCHO PUBLICATIONS v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. G023316.

81 Cal.Rptr.2d 274 (1999)

68 Cal.App.4th 1538

RANCHO PUBLICATIONS, Petitioner, v. The SUPERIOR COURT of Orange County, Respondent; Downey Community Hospital Foundation et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Three.

January 8, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davis Wright Tremaine, Kelli L. Sager and Karen N. Frederiksen, Los Angeles, Boutwell, Behrendt & Ennor, Boutwell, Ennor, Fay & Fabricant, and Deborah Fabricant, Long Beach, for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Leonard D. Venger, Donald R. Brown, and Norman Y. Wong, Los Angeles, for Real Parties in Interest.

OPINION

CROSBY, Acting P.J.

The right to speak anonymously draws its strength from two separate constitutional wellsprings: the First Amendment's freedom of speech and the right of privacy in article I, section 1 of the California Constitution. The anonymous pamphleteer is one of the enduring images of the American revolutionary heritage.

Publius, Cato and Brutus find their modern-day counterparts in "Save Our Hospital," a group which paid to run...

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