MARYLANDER v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. B138779.

97 Cal.Rptr.2d 439 (2000)

81 Cal.App.4th 1119

Stuart J. MARYLANDER, Petitioner, v. The SUPERIOR COURT of Los Angeles County, Respondent; Office of Statewide Health Planning And Development et al., Real Parties in Interest.

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

June 28, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, David Elson, Kathrin A. Wanner, and Mark E. Goldman, Los Angeles, for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Andrea Lynn Hoch and Tom Blake, Deputy Attorneys General, for Real Parties in Interest.


CHARLES S. VOGEL, P.J.

INTRODUCTION

A defendant in pending civil litigation seeks to compel discovery from a state agency of records that are relevant to his defense in the underlying case. The records are memoranda from the state agency to the Governor's Office. The trial court denied a motion to compel production, agreeing with the state agency that such memoranda are absolutely privileged on the grounds that correspondence to the Governor is exempt from...

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