Younger

Respondent Attorney General filed an action for enforcement of Government Code sections 12585 and 12586, subdivision (a) against the Wisdom Society and Leon Gutterman, (president and editor-in-chief), and Betty Jane Lang, (vice president and editorial and research director), to require the Wisdom Society and its trustees to file with the Attorney General certain documents, including annual financial reports. The Attorney General sought to have the Wisdom Society declared a “charitable corporation” within the meaning of Government Code section 12582.1 and therefore subject to reporting and other regulations related to charitable corporations. The trial court found that the Wisdom Society is a nonprofit educational corporation operated exclusively for educational purposes and made a conclusion of law that the “Wisdom Society” is a “charitable corporation” within Government Code section 12582.L The court ordered the Wisdom Society, Gutterman and Lang to comply retroactively with the reporting requirement of Government Code section 12586, and ordered Gutter-man and Lang to pay reasonable expenses incurred by the office in investigation and prosecution of the action.…