LONG BEACH POLICE OFFICERS ASSN. v. CITY OF LONG BEACH

No. S200872.

59 Cal.4th 59 (2014)

LONG BEACH POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. CITY OF LONG BEACH et al., Defendants and Appellants; LOS ANGELES TIMES COMMUNICATIONS LLC, Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

May 29, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of James E. Trott, James E. Trott and Larry J. Roberts for Plaintiff and Appellant.

The Law Offices of Charles Goldwasser, Charles A. Goldwasser , David A. Goldwasser and Theodore H. Dokko for Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs, Santa Ana Police Officers Association and Santa Barbara Police Officers Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Crabbe, Brown & James, Larry H. James and Christina L. Corl for The National Fraternal Order of Police as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Bobbitt, Pinckard & Fields, Richard L. Pinckard and Charles B. Walker for Police Officers Research Association of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Stone Busailah, Michael P. Stone , Muna Busailah and Robert Rabe for Los Angeles Police Protective League and Riverside Sheriffs' Association, Legal Defense Trust as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Robert E. Shannon , City Attorney, and Christina L. Checel , Deputy City Attorney, for Defendants and Appellants.

Liebert Cassidy Whitmore, Richard M. Kreisler and David A. Urban for Los Angeles County Police Chiefs' Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Karlene W. Goller ; Davis Wright Tremaine , Kelli L. Sager , Rochelle L. Wilcox and Jeff Glasser for Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

Peter Bibring ; Michael T. Risher ; and David Blair-Loy for ACLU Foundation of Southern California, ACLU Foundation of Northern California and ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter Hampton and Guylyn R. Cummins for California Newspaper Publishers Association, California Broadcasters Association, Newspaper Association of America, National Press Photographers Association, Associated Press, CBS Broadcasting, Inc., Freedom Communications, Inc., Gannett Co., Inc., Hearst Corporation, The New York Times Company, Press Democrat, The Press-Enterprise, San Diego Union-Tribune, The McClatchy Company, First Amendment Coalition, First Amendment Project, Californians Aware, Citizen Media Law Project, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and Newspaper Guild as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

Levine Sullivan Koch Schulz, James E. Grossberg , Lee Levine , Jeanette Melendez Bead ; Terry Francke ; Mark Powers ; James Ewert ; Mark H. Jackson , Jason P. Conti , Gail C. Gove ; David M. Giles ; Peter Scheer ; Eve B. Burton , Jonathan R. Donnellan ; Karole Morgan-Prager , Stephen J. Burns ; Denise Leary , Ashley Messenger; Mickey H. Osterreicher ; Amanda M. Leith ; Covington Burling, Kurt Wimmer ; Bruce D. Brown , Gregg P. Leslie and Mark R. Caramanica for Californians Aware, California Broadcasters Association, California Newspaper Publishers Association, Dow Jones & Company, Inc., The E.W. Scripps Company, First Amendment Coalition, Hearst Corporation, The McClatchy Company, National Press Photographers Association, National Public Radio, Inc., NBCUniversal Media, LLC, Newspaper Association of America and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest and Respondent.


OPINION

KENNARD, J. —*

A newspaper asked a city to release the names of police officers involved in certain shootings while on duty. The police union then sought injunctive relief against the city in superior court, attempting to prevent release of the names. The newspaper intervened (seeking disclosure of the names), and the city then aligned itself with the union (opposing...

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