NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD v. CITY OF HAYWARD

No. S252445.

9 Cal.5th 488 (2020)

NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD, SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA CHAPTER, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CITY OF HAYWARD et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

May 28, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael S. Lawson , City Attorney, Justin Nishioka , Assistant City Attorney; Jarvis, Fay & Gibson and Gabriel McWhirter for Defendants and Appellants.

Jennifer Gore and Maila Hansen for League of California Cities, California State Association of Counties and California Special Districts Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Dannis Woliver Kelley, Sue Anne Salmon Evans , William B. Tunick , Jennifer H. Choi ; Kathryn Meola and Michael Ambrose for The California School Boards Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Law Offices of Amitai Schwartz, Amitai Schwartz ; American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, Inc., and Alan L. Schlosser for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Katie Townsend , Bruce D. Brown , Caitlin Vogus and Daniel J. Jeon for Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 33 Media Organizations as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Davis Wright Tremaine, Kelli L. Sager , Dan Laidman and Selina MacLaren for California News Publishers Association and First Amendment Coalition as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

McManis Faulkner and Christine Peek for Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Chapter and Pacific Media Workers Guild as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Briggs Law Corporation, Cory J. Briggs and Anthony N. Kim for San Diegans for Open Government, California Taxpayers Action Network and The Inland Oversight Committee as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Rebecca Carr Miller and Richard A. Rothschild for Coalition on Homelessness, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, Western Center on Law & Poverty and Western Regional Advocacy Project as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Jim Ewert and Nikki Moore for California News Publishers Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Terry Francke for Californians Aware as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Judy Alexander ; Davis Wright Tremaine and Thomas Burke for The Center for Investigative Reporting as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

David Snyder for First Amendment Coalition as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Barbara W. Wall for Gannett Co., Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Jeffrey Glasser for Los Angeles Times, LLC, and The San Diego Union-Tribune, LLC, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Juan Cornejo for The McClatchy Company as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

This case concerns the costs provisions of the California Public Records Act (Gov. Code, § 6250 et seq.). As a general rule, a person who requests a copy of a government record under the act must pay only the costs of duplicating the record, and not other ancillary costs, such as the costs of redacting material...

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