Legal Opinion
Crews v. Willows Unified School District
California Court of Appeal
Decided July 17, 2013No. C066633PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
HOCH, J.
This appeal arises out of an order for payment of attorney fees and costs by a newspaper publisher to a public agency that complied with a burdensome request for documents under the California Public Records Act (PRA) (Gov. Code, § 6250 et seq.). Section 6259, subdivision (d), provides for an award of attorney fees and costs to the public agency in the event of a “clearly frivolous” PRA case. The trial court in this case found Tim Crews, the publisher of a newspaper with a small circulation in Glenn County, pursued a frivolous PRA petition against the Willows Unified School…
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