SACRAMENTO COUNTY EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. C065730.

195 Cal.App.4th 440 (2011)

SACRAMENTO COUNTY EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Respondent; THE SACRAMENTO BEE et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

May 11, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James G. Line; Nossaman, John Thomas Kennedy and Stephen N. Roberts for Petitioner.

Crowell Moring and Steven P. Rice for San Diego County Employees Retirement Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

Mark E. Merin for Sacramento County Retired Employees' Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

Arias & Lockwood and Christopher Damian Lockwood for San Bernardino County Employees' Retirement Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

Neil C. Baker for Sonoma County Employees' Retirement Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

Julia Wyne and David Henry Lantzer for Board of Retirement of the Orange County Employees Retirement System as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

Kathleen Bales-Lange, County Counsel, and Barbara Booth Grunwald, Deputy County Counsel, for Tulare County Employees' Retirement Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

Robert S. Van Der Volgen, Jr., Michael D. Herrera and Christine Roseland for Board of Retirement of Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Ram & Olson and Karl Olson for Real Parties in Interest.

Trevor A. Grimm, Jonathan M. Coupal and Timothy A. Bittle for Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.

Meriem L. Hubbard and Harold E. Johnson for Pacific Legal Foundation and Fullerton Association of Concerned Taxpayers as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.

Davis Wright Tremaine, Thomas R. Burke, Duffy Carolan and Jeff Glasser for California Newspaper Publishers Association, Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, The Associated Press, California Newspapers Partnership, The Record, Hearst Corporation, The New York Times Company, The Press-Enterprise, The Bakersfield Californian, Eagle Newspapers, Daily Republic and Capitol Weekly as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

DUARTE, J.

In this original writ proceeding we discuss the California Public Records Act (Public Records Act) and the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (Retirement Law). (Gov. Code, §§ 6251 et seq., 31450 et seq.)1

The Public Records Act generally requires public agencies to disclose public records, subject to exemptions. (See International Federation of Professional &...

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