RECENT CALIFORNIA DECISIONS

January 2007

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Second District Court Finds Late Night City Council Meetings Not Properly Challenged by Two Santa Monica City Council Members
Holbrook v. City of Santa Monica, ___ Cal.App.4th ___

On November 20, 2006, the Second District Court of Appeal upheld the Los Angeles County Superior Court’s grant of a demurrer and special motion to strike under the anti-SLAPP statute in favor of defendant City of Santa Monica. Two members of the Santa Monica City Council had challenged the city’s practice of holding regular city council meetings that ran late into the night on the grounds that such meetings violated the California and U.S. Constitutions, the Brown Act, and Cal-OSHA.