Roberts v. City of Palmdale

How courts have described this case

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

• construing the “Brown Act,” California’s open-meetings law, and holding that a meeting implies “collective action ... not ... the passive receipt by individu als of their mail”
• Brown Act applies to collective action, not the passive receipt of e-mail by members absent a concerted plan to engage in collective deliberation
• “concerted plan to engage in collective deliberation” serially would violate the open meeting requirement (dictum)
• Brown Act applies to collective action, not the passive receipt of e-mail by members absent a concerted plan to engage in collective deliberation
• attorney-client privilege “is no mere peripheral eviden-' tiary rule, but is held vital to the effective administration of justice”
• a meeting requires “a concerted plan to engage in collective deliberation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).