Sacramento Newspaper Guild, Local 92 v. Sacramento County Board of Supervisors

How courts have described this case

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• noting, in action under state public meeting act, that California cases have assumed that public agencies may assert privilege
• construing “meeting”: “In this area of regulation, as well as others, a statute may push beyond debatable limits in order to block evasive techniques”
• “Only by embracing the collective inquiry and discussion stages, as well as the ultimate step of official action, can an open meeting regulation frustrate these evasive devices.”
• an \[[Interpretation requires inquiry into the ... [act’s] objective and into the functional character of the gatherings or sessions to which the legislature intended it to apply\
• “Neither the attorney’s presence nor the happenstance of some kind of lawsuit may serve as the pretext for secret consultations whose revelation will not injure the public interest.”
• attorney-client conferences permitted in executive session under circumstances defined by Cal.Evid. Code which permitted presence of some third parties

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).