Lawsuit to proceed for Connerly’s group
The Fair Political Practices Commission can sue University of California Regent Ward Connerly’s American Civil Rights Coalition for failing to disclose its major financial backers last year, an appeals court said in a ruling made public Friday.
The commission originally sued to force Connerly’s group to report major contributors to his Proposition 54 racial privacy initiative before last November’s election, but Sacramento Superior Court Judge Thomas Cecil
decided there was no rush.
Metropolitan News-Enterprise
Friday, August 27, 2004
Rule That Hearings on Anti-SLAPP Motions Must Be Held Within 30 Days Clarified by Court of Appeal
By KENNETH OFGANG, Staff Writer/Appellate Courts
An anti-SLAPP motion not heard within 30 days of being served must be denied unless the moving defendant affirmatively shows that it could not get a hearing within that time, the Third District Court of Appeal ruled yesterday.
The court affirmed the denial of a motion by the American Civil Rights Coalition, Inc. and Ward Connerly to throw out a suit by the Fair Political Practices Commission. The FPPC claims that more than $1.5 million in
donations to last year’s unsuccessful campaign to enact Proposition 54, an initiative that would have banned most collection of racial data by state and local government, were funneled through the ACRC in order to avoid the state’s disclosure laws.