Bakia v. County of Los Angeles

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Mandamus review has been held to be appropriate for discovery matters which otherwise would be renewable only on direct appeal after resolution on the merits.”
• in First Amendment case, stating that focus should be on objective manifestations of legislative purpose as opposed to subjective motivations of individual legislators
• “Mandamus review has been held to be appropriate for discovery matters which otherwise would be reviewable only on direct appeal after resolution on the merits.”
• “Mandamus review has been held to be appropriate for discovery matters which otherwise would be reviewable only on direct appeal after resolution on the merits”
• “statute will' not be invalidated on. the basis of an ‘alleged illicit legislative motive,’ U.S. v. O’Brien, 391 U.S. [367,] 383, 88 S.Ct. [1673,] 1682, [20 L.Ed.2d 672 (1968) ]”
• writ of mandamus appropriate vehicle to challenge deposition of city officials

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).