Stockton Newspapers, Inc. v. Redevelopment Agency

Opinion

PUGLIA, P. J.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment on the pleadings in favor of defendants. The appeal involves California’s public meeting law (Gov. Code, § 54950 et seq.) known as the Ralph M. Brown Act (Gov. Code, § 54950.5; all subsequent references to sections of an unspecified code are to the Government Code). At issue here is whether a series of nonpublic telephone conversations, each between a member of the governing body of a local agency and its attorney, for the commonly agreed purpose of obtaining a collective commitment or promise by a majority of that body concerning public…