Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Tulare County Supervisors Brown Act Suit Appealed

As the Visalia Times Delta is reporting this morning, the suit against the Tulare County Board of Supervisors has been appealed to the Supreme Court.

The article is not clear on several important points, so I will clarify those.

First, what has occurred is that the newspapers in question have filed a petition for review.  They are just asking the California Supreme Court to review the issue at this point.  The Court will have to decide whether they actually want to hear the case.  Statistically, they will decline to do so.

Second, the case was already heard at the Fifth District Court of Appeal where the newspapers lost, making their odds of success slim, even if the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.