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CITY OF PETALUMA v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. A145437.

248 Cal.App.4th 1023 (2016)

204 Cal. Rptr. 3d 196

CITY OF PETALUMA, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SONOMA COUNTY, Respondent; ANDREA WATERS, Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Three.

June 8, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric W. Danly , City Attorney; Burke, Williams, & Sorenson, Samantha W. Zutler ; Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, Timothy T. Coates and Alison M. Turner for Defendant and Petitioner.

Renne Sloan Holtzman Sakai ; Nikki Hall and Ivan Delventhal for The League of California Cities, California State Association of Counties, California Association of Joint Powers Authorities and California Special Districts Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Petitioner.

Cooper, White & Cooper; Mark L. Tuft and Sarah J. Banola for Association of Workplace Investigators, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Petitioner.

Kerley Schaffer , J. Edward Kerley , Dylan Schaffer ; Kochan & Stephenson, Deborah Kochan and Mathew Stephenson for Plaintiff and Real Party in Interest.

OPINION

This writ proceeding requires us to resolve two questions related to whether an employer's prelitigation investigation of an employee's harassment and discrimination claims is protected from disclosure in discovery. As an initial matter, we consider whether the employer's prelitigation factual investigation...

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