Supreme Court of California

In a right to privacy action, superior court's sustain of a demurrer and dismissal of action challenging defendant's patdown policy at football games is reversed and remanded where, in reviewing a private entertainment venue's security arrangements that implicate the state constitutional right of privacy, further inquiry is necessary to determine whether the policy is reasonable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/02/2009
• Published 03/02/2009

Judges

• CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Chapman, Popik & White, Mark A. White, Benjamin J. Riley, San Francisco;  American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, Ann Brick and Margaret C. Cosby for Plaintiffs and Appellants., Brad Seligman, Berkeley, and Alvaro D. Soria for Impact Fund, Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center and Public Advocates, Inc., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants., Altshuler Berzon, Michael Rubin and Peder J. Thoreen, San Francisco, for Unite Here as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants., Eric Grant;  John W. Whitehead and Douglas R. McKusick for The Rutherford Institute as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Covington & Burling, Sonya D. Winner, San Francisco, Jonathan A. Patchen, Deepa Varadarajan and William V. Goldfarb, San Francisco, for Defendant and Respondent., Reed Smith, Paul D. Fogel, Dennis Peter Maio, San Francisco;  Richard A. Munisteri;  Ted Fikre, Los Angeles;  and Turner D. Madden for Live Nation, Anschutz Entertainment Group, Inc., and International Association of Assembly Managers, Inc., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent., Bingham McCutchen, James L. Hunt and Dale E. Barnes, San Francisco, for Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Football League and the National Hockey League as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent., Gus P. Coldebella, Acting General Counsel, United States Department of Homeland Security, Andrew J. Puglia Levy, Deputy General Counsel, Gregory G. Katsas, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Jonathan F. Cohn, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Douglas N. Letter, Christopher J. Walker and Thomas M. Bondy for The United States of America as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.