Carlin Law Group v. Superior Court CA4/3

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Carlin made a written request to UCI’s Public Records Office (PRO) on June 13, 2022, for production of records in the possession of UCI’s construction

1 The CPRA, previously codified as Government Code section 6250 et seq., was repealed and recodified as Government Code section 7920.000 et seq. without substantive change under the CPRA Recodification Act of 2021 (Gov. Code, § 7920.005) effective January 1, 2023. (Stats. 2021, ch. 614, §§ 1–2.) For the sake of clarity, citations in this opinion are to the current version of the statute. All further statutory references are to the Government Code unless otherwise indicated.

2 2 department relating to UCI’s Verano 8 Graduate Student Housing Project. While that formal records request was pending, Carlin’s principal attorney, Kevin R. Carlin 3 (Kevin) , showed up in person at UCI’s construction department, held himself out as a member of the public and, without mentioning the already-pending formal records request, demanded to immediately inspect the same records. UCI’s construction department denied Kevin’s request and referred him to PRO. Carlin’s operative complaint attached the correspondence between…