CREWS v. WILLOWS UNIFIED SCHOOL DIST.

No. C066633.

217 Cal.App.4th 1368 (2013)

159 Cal. Rptr. 3d 484

TIM CREWS, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. WILLOWS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

July 17, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ram, Olson, Cereghino & Kopczynski and Karl Olson for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Joseph T. Francke for William T. Bagley, Leland Yee and Californians Aware as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Davis Wright Tremaine,   Duffy Carolan and Dan Laidman for First Amendment Coalition, California Newspaper Publishers Association, Los Angeles Times Communications, McClatchy Company, California Newspapers Partnership, The Orange County Register, Hearst Corporation and The Press-Enterprise as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Burke Williams & Sorensen, Donald A. Velez,   Amy E. Hoyt ; Matt Juhl-Darlington & Associates and Matthew P. Juhl-Darlington for Defendants and Respondents.

Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo, A. Christopher Duran,   Elizabeth P. Lind and Paul M. Loya for California School Boards Association's Education Legal Alliance as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

HOCH, J.

This appeal arises out of an order for payment of attorney fees and costs by a newspaper publisher to a public agency that complied with a burdensome request for documents under the California Public Records Act (PRA) (Gov. Code, § 6250 et seq.).1 Section 6259, subdivision (d), provides for an award of attorney fees and costs to the...

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