$200,000 in Fees is the Approximate Tally.
As reported by Jim Sanders in a February 15, 2012 article in The Orange County Register, the state Assembly has spent close to $200,000 in a California Public Records Act case in an effort to fight releasing member budgets allocating millions in public funds. Eventually, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley ruled in December 2011 against the Assembly in the public-records suit filed by The Sacramento Bee and The Los Angeles Times--meaning the records had to be disclosed by the papers. The Assembly paid $123,945 in legal fees to fight the suit, according to the article, while the Assembly was ordered by the same superior court judge to pick up $73,707 in fees paid by the two newspapers.
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