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California: Judge denies legal fees to county supervisors on open meeting lawsuit

donal brown April 16, 2012

A Tulare County Superior Court judge ruled that the county supervisors could not retrieve legal fees from its successful defense of their regular closed lunch meetings. The Visalia Times-Delta and the California Newspaper Publishers Association had filed suit claiming the meetings violated the Brown Act, the state’s open meeting law, but lost in Superior Court. From the Visalia Times-Delta,  April 13, 2012. Full story    

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School district ordered to hand over files and $300,000 in attorney fees in Northern California suit

FAC December 5, 2011

Almost two years ago, Mike Harris’s  son was thrown off his high school basketball team for posting a parody hip-hop video about the youth drug culture on YouTube. Harris wanted to find out how the District had arrived at their decision to oust his son from the team and requested all records documenting the incident. When the Northern California school district failed to provide everything he’d requested, Harris hired Davis attorney Paul Boylan to sue

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A&A: Can I appeal a records request denial from State Medical Board?

FAC August 22, 2011

Q: I made a request to the California Medical Board for licensing application information. The Medical Board denied my request and offered no avenues for appeal. By my reading of relevant case law, and admittedly I am not a lawyer, this information is clearly not exempt from the Public Records Act. Are there avenues for appeal for this kind of denial that don’t involve entering litigation? If litigation is required, is it common practice, or

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