Court Refuses to Order Redaction of Filings That Reveal Litigant’s Past Pseudonymous Lawsuits
From today’s decision in Luo v. County of L.A.(note that this is the same Luo from Luo v. Volokh), written by Justice John Segal and joined by Justices Gonzalo Martinez and Gail Ruderman Feuer:
Xingfei Luo brought this action against the County of Los Angeles under the California Public Records Act (CPRA). 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….
Luo had actually largely prevailed on her underlying demand for various records on crime statistics, but lost as to the redaction, and the appellate court concluded that the trial court didn’t abuse its discretion on that score:
First, substantial evidence supported the trial court’s implied finding there was no overriding interest supporting re
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