Legal Opinion
Rancho Publications v. Superior Court
California Court of Appeal
Decided January 8, 1999No. G023316PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
CROSBY, Acting P. J .
The right to speak anonymously draws its strength from two separate constitutional wellsprings: the First Amendment’s freedom of speech and the right of privacy in article I, section 1 of the California Constitution. The anonymous pamphleteer is one of the enduring images of the American revolutionary heritage.
Publius, Cato and Brutus find their modern-day counterparts in “Save Our Hospital,” a group which paid to run numerous advertisements in a local newspaper criticizing a local community hospital. The hospital used a preexisting civil lawsuit to find out who…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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- Pittsburgh Press Co. v. Pittsburgh Commission on Human RelationsSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Talley v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Delaney v. Superior CourtCalifornia Supreme Court · 1990
- Britt v. Superior CourtCalifornia Supreme Court · 1978
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3Cited by15 opinions
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- H.B. Fuller Co. v. DoeCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2007
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