City of Sacramento v. Superior Court

Opinion

EVANS, J.

In Leslie v. Roe (1974) 41 Cal.App.3d 104 [116 Cal.Rptr. 386] (hg. den.), the court held that indigency does not entitle a party in a civil action to a transcript prepared at public expense to assist in the *717appeal of an adverse decision. That principle was followed in Civil Service Commission v. Superior Court (Price) (1976) 63 Cal.App.3d 627 [133 Cal.Rptr. 825] (hg. den.) where the court, faced with a factual context identical to the instant proceeding, held that a court reviewing an administrative decision “is without power to order that an indigent person seeking judicial…