Legal Opinion
Westbrook v. County of Los Angeles
California Court of Appeal
Decided July 29, 1994No. B068360PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
WOODS (A. M.), P. J .
The issue presented in this case is whether a private entity in the business of selling criminal background information to the public is entitled to obtain a compilation of data from a data base maintained by the Municipal Courts of Los Angeles County, including the name, birth date and zip code of every person against whom criminal charges are pending in those courts, together with the case number, date of offense, charges filed, pending court dates, and disposition.
For reasons explained more fully in this opinion, we conclude such information is protected from…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the PressSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- White v. DavisCalifornia Supreme Court · 1975
- Trs. of William Randolph Hearst Testamentary Tr. v. LubinskiCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1977
- Craemer v. Superior CourtCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1968
- Craig v. Municipal CourtCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1979
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- Opinion No. (2003), California Attorney General Reports2003
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