# Freedom Newspapers, Inc. v. Orange County Employees Retirement System Board of Directors

> California Supreme Court · December 23, 1993 · 6 Cal. 4th 821

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9560319

## Case

- **Full name:** FREEDOM NEWSPAPERS, INC., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. ORANGE COUNTY EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM BOARD OF DIRECTORS, Defendant and Respondent
- **Court:** California Supreme Court
- **Decided:** December 23, 1993
- **Citations:** 6 Cal. 4th 821; 25 Cal. Rptr. 2d 148; 93 Daily Journal DAR 16426; 863 P.2d 218; 93 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 9589; 1993 Cal. LEXIS 6370
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by Mosk
- **Judges:** Panelli, Mosk
- **Cited by:** 219 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

MOSK, J., Concurring and Dissenting.
Although I have no quarrel with the result reached by the majority, I find that virtually all their reasoning has been rendered moot by the enactment of the 1993 legislation quoted in footnote 11 of the majority opinion. (Stats. 1993, ch. 1138.)
That legislation answers the question we took this case to resolve, i.e., whether advisory committees composed solely of members of a legislative body are themselves “legislative bodies” for purposes of the Ralph M. Brown Act. (Gov. Code, § 54950 et seq.) The 1993 legislation plainly declares they are not, unless they qualify as “standing committees” therein defined.
In light of this development the majority opinion has become an anachronism; indeed, the 1993 legislation repeals the very statute discussed by the majority at length. (Gov. Code, § 54952.3.) Because it is not our responsibility to offer advisory opinions on repealed statutes, I would dismiss review in this case as improvidently granted.

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