CITY WILL APPEAL JUDGE'S DOCUMENT-RELEASE ORDER.Byline: - Helen Gao City officials said Wednesday that they will appeal a court ruling requiring them to make sensitive documents available to the developer of the Oakmont V property, who has two lawsuits pending against the city. Gregg's Artistic Homes has fought since last fall for the right to examine written communications - filling three binders - between the city's lawyers, outside counsel and environmental impact report consultants. The Greggs believe those documents contain evidence of how the city plotted to stall their 572-home subdivision proposed for 238 acres in the Verdugo Mountains The Verdugo Mountains are a small mountain range located just south of the western San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County, Southern California, The United States of America (USA). The range is commonly known simply as the Verdugos. . The project was ultimately rejected by the city earlier this year - nearly a decade after the Greggs filed their development application. ``We believe there is going to be memos back and forth to different EIR EIR n. popular acronym for environmental impact report, required by many states as part of the application to a county or city for approval of a land development or project. (See: environmental impact report) consultants that indicate how the city sought to slow down and impede prospect of development on the land,'' said Allen Brandstater, spokesman for Gregg's Artistic Homes. ``Obviously, there is something damaging in them that they don't want them to be seen.'' City Attorney Scott Howard Scott Howard sings baritone with the Southern Gospel Quartet Legacy Five. He has been with the group since its inception in 2000. External Links Legacy Five's Homepage said the documents the Greggs are seeking are protected by attorney-client privilege In the law of evidence, a client's privilege to refuse to disclose, and to prevent any other person from disclosing, confidential communications between the client and his or her attorney. . ``We are appealing it because it is the right thing to do,'' he said. ``We don't take attorney-client privilege lightly.'' John Gregg John Gregg can refer to the following people:
In a May 14 ruling, Superior Court Judge Rodney E. Nelson had sided with the Greggs, saying the documents are not protected by attorney-client privilege. ``The basis of the ruling is that no attorney-client privilege applies to the documents because Rincon and Jones & Stokes Stokes , William 1804-1878. British physician. Known especially for his studies of diseases of the chest and heart, he expanded on the observations of John Cheyne in describing the breathing irregularity now known as Cheyne-Stokes respiration. (environmental consultants for the city) were not clients of the attorneys,'' Nelson wrote in his ruling. |
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