BECERRA v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. A157998.

44 Cal.App.5th 897 (2020)

XAVIER BECERRA, as Attorney General, etc., et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Respondent; FIRST AMENDMENT COALITION et al., Real Parties in Interest.

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

January 29, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Xavier Becerra , Attorney General, Thomas S. Patterson , Assistant Attorney General, Stepan A. Haytayan , Amie L. Medley and Jennifer E. Rosenberg , Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Appellant.

Michael T. Risher ; David E. Snyder and Glen A. Smith for Real Parties in Interest First Amendment Coalition.

Davis Wright Tremaine, Thomas R. Burke and Brendan Charney for Real Parties in Interest KQED, Inc.

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Katie Townsend , Bruce D. Brown , Adam A. Marshall , Daniel J. Jeon ; The Associated Press, Karen Kaiser ; California News Publishers Association, Jim Ewert ; Californians Aware, Terry Francke ; The E.W. Scripps Company, David M. Giles ; First Look Media Works, David Bralow ; Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, James Chadwick ; Fox Television Stations, David M. Keneipp ; Gannett Co., Barbara W. Wall ; Hearst Corporation, Jonathan Donnellan , Ravi V. Sitwala , Diego Ibarguen ; Los Angeles Times Communications & The San Diego Union-Tribune, Jeff Glasser ; The McClatchy Company, Juan Cornejo ; Covington & Burling, Kurt Wimmer ; MNG Enterprises, Marshall W. Anstandig ; MPA—The Association of Magazine Media, James Cregan ; Ballard Spahr, Charles D. Tobin ; The National Press Photographers Association, Mickey H. Osterreicher ; ProPublica, Richard J. Tofel ; Wiley Rein, Kathleen A. Kirby ; Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, Victoria Baranetsky ; Baker & Hostetler, Bruce W. Sanford , Mark I. Bailen ; VICE Media and Lucinda Treat as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

The California Public Records Act (CPRA) (Gov. Code, § 6250 et seq.) enshrines the value this state has long placed on government transparency and public access to information concerning the conduct of the people's business. More recently, in acknowledgment of the extraordinary

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