COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES DEPT. OF REGIONAL PLANNING v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. B241342.

208 Cal.App.4th 1264 (2012)

146 Cal. Rptr. 3d 439

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF REGIONAL PLANNING, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; QUOC THAI PHAM et al., Real Parties in Interest.

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

August 28, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Krattli , Acting County Counsel, Richard D. Weiss , Assistant County Counsel, and Lawrence L. Hafetz , Principal Deputy County Counsel; Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester, Eugene P. Ramirez , Steven J. Renick and Michelle B. Ghaltchi for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Janice Y. Fukai , Alternate Public Defender, Jean M. Costanza and Michael Goodman , Deputy Alternate Public Defenders, for Real Parties in Interest Quoc Thai Pham and Arthur Lee Neal, Sr.

Ronald L. Brown , Public Defender, Dylan Ford , Susanne Blossom , Leslie Ringold and Albert J. Menaster , Deputy Public Defenders, for Real Party in Interest Harold P. Brown.

Christa Hohmann for Real Party in Interest Bernard Harper.


OPINION

SUZUKAWA, J.

The County of Los Angeles (County), by and through the County Department of Regional Planning (Department), seeks a writ of mandate directing the trial court to vacate its order appointing two of the Department's employees as confidential expert witnesses for real parties in interest, Quoc Thai Pham, Harold P. Brown, Arthur Lee Neal, Sr., and Bernard Harper. We conclude the superior court erred in refusing to vacate...

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