City Council v. Superior Court

THE COURT.

This is a petition for a writ of prohibition to restrain the superior court from further proceedings in an action entitled “United Western Newspapers, Inc., a California- corporation, and C. Deane Funk, Petitioners, versus The City Council of the City of Santa Monica, a municipal corporation, et al.” In that action petitioners seek to compel the city council and its individual members to make public and permit inspection of all “minutes and reports referred to in this petition.” This has reference to the minutes of a meeting of the city council on February 16, 1962, and the report…