STATE DEPT. OF PUBLIC HEALTH v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. S214679.

60 Cal.4th 940 (2015)

STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Respondent; CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

February 19, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General, Kathleen Kenealy , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gregory D. Brown , Deputy State Solicitor General, Julie Weng-Gutierrez , Assistant Attorney General, Niromi W. Pfeiffer and Grant Lien , Deputy Attorneys General, for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Davis Wright Tremaine , Rochelle Wilcox ; Jassy Vick Carolan , Duffy Carolan and Jeff Glasser for Real Party in Interest.

Arne Werchick for California Advocates for Nursing Reform, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.

Ram, Olson, Cereghino & Kopczynski, Karl Olson ; Jeffrey D. Glasser ; James W. Ewert ; and Juan F. Cornejo for California Newspaper Publishers Association, Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, McClatchy Newspapers, Inc., First Amendment Coalition and California Broadcasters Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.

O'Melveny & Myers, Sabrina Heron Strong , Patricia K. Yew , Heather Silver and Alexander Slavin for Inner City Law Center as Amicus Curiae.


OPINION

The Center for Investigative Reporting (the Center) is a news organization investigating mistreatment of mentally ill and developmentally disabled individuals in state-owned long-term health care facilities. It filed a California Public Records Act (Public Records Act; Gov. Code, § 6250 et seq.) request for...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases