COUNTY OF ORANGE v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. G032843

6 Cal.Rptr.3d 286 (2003)

113 Cal.App.4th 1

COUNTY OF ORANGE et al., Petitioners, v. The SUPERIOR COURT of Orange County, Respondent; Vedanta Society of Southern California et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Three

October 7, 2003


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin P. de Mayo, County Counsel and Jack W. Golden, Deputy County Counsel; Law Offices of William D. Ross, Los Angeles, and Lisabeth D. Rothman for Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.

Connor, Blake & Griffin, Edmond M. Connor and David J. Hesseltine, Irvine, for Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

SILLS, P.J.

We have before us a hard fought writ proceeding over, of all things, the contents of an administrative record in a CEQA case. At the behest of the project opponents, the trial judge excluded items which, as we show below, are required by law to be in that record.

We now grant the petition to require their inclusion. Petitioners have no adequate remedy at law. In CEQA cases time is money. A project opponent can "win" even though...

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