CV-22-002853 – ANHAR, MICHAEL N vs CITY OF TURLOCK – Petitioner’s Petition for Peremptory Writ of Mandate and Complaint for Ordinary Declaratory Judgment – HEARING REQUIRED. The Court intends to GRANT Declaratory Judgment and costs and needs to address the issues that are unresolved from the last hearing.
 
The Court begins by summarizing a key portion of the last hearing on December 16, 2022. Petitioner had requested some documents and Respondent had claimed privileges. The Court reviewed two stacks of documents and then questioned the City’s counsel in chambers.
 
The city made representations as to what those documents were which were accurate in one case and inaccurate in another. Given the long history of these cases, providing the wrong set of documents to the Court was not best practice.
 
The Court has determined that it needs the transcript of the last hearing. The Court intends to proceed as follows:
 
The Court will review the transcript.
The Court will send out a tentative