California: Appeals court sides with plaintiffs on court costs in Tulare County lunch meeting suit

Without comment a California appeals court reversed an order that the Times-Delta/Advance-Register and allies pay legal costs for Tulare County in a Brown Act suit. The newspaper and others had charged that the Tulare County Board of Supervisors violated the Brown Act, the state’s open meeting law, by conducting a series of lunch meetings closed to the public.

The supervisors said the meetings were for morale-building, and a county judge agreed that the plaintiffs did not show that the supervisors violated the Brown Act and ordered the plaintiffs to pay the county’s legal costs. -db

From the Tulare Advance-Register, November 29, 2011, written from staff reports.

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