Luo

INTRODUCTION

Xingfei Luo brought this action against the County of Los Angeles under the California Public Records Act (CPRA) (Gov. Code, former § 6250 et seq.).1 In an opposition to a motion by Luo for sanctions, the County listed other lawsuits Luo had filed using a pseudonym. Seven months later, Luo filed an ex parte application for an order redacting the list of lawsuits from the County’s opposition and the trial court’s order denying the motion for sanctions. Luo appeals from the trial court’s order denying her ex parte application. We affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

A. Luo Files a Petition for a Writ of Mandate, Which the Trial Court Grants in Part In October 2020 Luo, representing herself as Jane Doe, filed a petition against the County and the City of El Monte seeking a writ of mandate, a declaratory judgment, and injunctive relief under CPRA and article I, section 3, subdivision (b), of the California Constitution. Luo alleged the County and the City had not complied with her requests under CPRA for records on crime statistics. At the trial setting conference, the trial court stated Luo could not proceed under a pseudonym in a CPRA case and directed her…