Appeals Court Orders Partial Publication of Retaliation, Emotional Distress Decision

A California appellate court last week ordered partial publication of its determination that an elected city official’s claims for retaliation and intentional infliction of emotional distress should have been subjected to the defendants’ special motion to strike. The decision in Brown v. City of Inglewood was originally released May 31 as unpublished. Only published decisions are binding precedent in California. The city in June asked the court to publish the decision, and the court granted the request Friday ordering that the opinion be partially published with modifications. T...