Vietnamese-American Community etc. v. City of San Jose CA6

I. INTRODUCTION

Appellant Vietnamese-American Community of Northern California (VACNORCAL) filed a second amended complaint alleging in the first cause of action that respondents City of San Jose (City), the City Council, and the San Jose Redevelopment Agency (hereafter, collectively defendants) had violated the Ralph M. Brown Act (Gov. Code, § 549501 et seq.; hereafter, the Brown Act) and seeking injunctive and declaratory relief. In the second cause of action, VACNORCAL sought

1 All statutory references hereafter are to the Government Code unless otherwise indicated. injunctive and declaratory relief for violation of the California Public Records Act (§ 6250 et seq.) The trial court denied VACNORCAL’s motion for summary adjudication of the first cause of action for violation of the Brown Act and granted defendants’ competing motion for summary adjudication of the first cause of action. The second cause of action for violation of the California Public Records Act proceeded to a court trial. On appeal, VACNORCAL argues that the trial court erred by denying VACNORCAL’s motion for summary adjudication and granting defendants’ motion for summary adjudication of the first cause of…