Focus (Forum & Focus)
Sep. 11, 2007
Thwarting Secrecy
Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - For decades, the California Supreme Court has consistently ruled against the media in information-access cases. A new ruling regarding the salaries of public employees in Oakland, however, marks a dramatic about-face.
By Peter Scheer
America's highest courts are justly criticized for avoiding hard issues. The judicial fetish for deciding cases on the narrowest possible grounds yields opinions so limited and unambitious in scope that they often raise more questions and generate more legal disputes than they resolve.
Exceptions are the rare court decisions that, by boldly staking out broad a...
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