California Court of Appeal

In an issue of first impression in which petitioner-county sought extraordinary relief from a superior court order requiring it to disclose its geographic information system basemap to a real party in interest, petitioner's writ petition is denied where: 1) the law calls for unrestricted disclosure of the information sought here, subject to the payment of costs to be determined by the trial court; and 2) petitioner-county is not entitled to the relief.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/05/2009
• Published 02/05/2009

Judges

• McADAMS, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Office of the County Counsel, Ann Miller Ravel, County Counsel, Robert A. Nakamae, Dep. County Counsel, for Petitioners., California State Association of Counties, Jennifer B. Henning, for Amicus Curiae on Behalf of Petitioners., Holme, Roberts & Owen, Roger Myers, Rachel Matteo-Boehm, Kyle Schriner, San Francisco, for Real Party in Interest., California Newpaper Publishers Assoc., Los Angeles Times Communication LLP, Freedom Communications, Inc., Copley Press, Inc., The Bakersfield Californian, The Press-Enterprise, Medianews Group, Inc., Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and The National Freedom of Information Coalition, Mary Duffy Carolan, Jeff Glasser, Davis Wright Tremaine, Los Angeles, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest., The National Security Archive, The Center for Democracy and Technology, Jenner & Block LLP, Paul M. Smith, Iris E. Bennett, Daniel I. Weiner, Peter H. Hanna, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Marcia Hoffman, American Business Media, Choicepoint Asset Company LLC, First American Core Logic, Inc., National Association of Professional Background Screeners, Real Estate Information Professionals Association, Reed Elsevier Inc., The Software and Information Industry Association, Meyer Klipper & Mohr PLLC, Michael R. Klipper, Christopher A. Mohr;  Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP, Jeffrey G. Knowles, San Francisco, Seventy SevenGIS Professionals, Great Oaks Water Co., Timothy S. Guster, General Counsel, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.