Regents of University of California v. Superior Court

Opinion

MOSK, J.

The Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (hereafter sometimes the act), which is set out at section 11120 et seq. of the Government Code,1 governs the conduct of state bodies and imposes on such bodies various obligations, including that they must generally give prior notice of their meetings, pursuant to section 11125, and must generally cause such meetings to be open and public, pursuant to section 11123.

We granted review in this cause to address two important questions of first impression.

One question concerns the right of action granted by subdivision (a) of section 11130…