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Letter to the Editor: Judges Lack Objectivity in Open Meeting Issue

The Recorder

March 8, 2013

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I compliment you upon the Recorder article concerning Judicial Council secrecy ("Behind Closed Doors," Feb. 25).

I made a mistake 15 years ago in excluding the judiciary from my legislative overhaul of the Brown Act and its comparable state open meeting statutes. The attitude of Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Fourth District Justice Doug Miller and others infuriates me. How can they be expected to rule objectively on open meeting disputes?

Quentin Kopp

San Francisco

Editor's note: Quentin Kopp is a retired judge of the San Mateo County Superior Court.

You can send Letters to the Editor to ?The Recorder, 1035 Market St., Suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94103; by fax at 415-490-9997; or by email at recorder-editor@alm.com.



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