Deukmejian

Petitioner, George Deukmejian, Attorney General of the State of California (AG), seeks a peremptory writ of mandate to compel respondent Superior Court of Los Angeles County (trial court) to vacate its order granting the motion of real party in interest, the law offices of Kaplan, Livingston, Goodwin, Berkowitz & Selvin (KLGBS) for a preliminary injunction.

KLGBS is the plaintiff in the action entitled “Kaplan, Livingston, Goodwin, Berkowitz & Selvin, a partnership, Plaintiff, v. State of California; George “Duke” Deukmejian, Attorney General of the State of California; and, The Municipal Court for the County of Los Angeles, State of California, Defendants,” case number C 277 290, which seeks injunctive relief enjoining the AG and his agents from executing a search warrant issued by the Los Angeles Municipal Court (Municipal Court), for the search of the law offices, files and records of KLGBS, and from seeking issuance of any other warrant for the said location, pending trial of the matter.

The trial court granted the preliminary injunction as prayed, and added another provision restraining the AG from conducting any search of the offices, files and records of KLGBS,…