The Los Angeles Times offers Listen Up, Politiicans: It’s Ears Before Ayes, which begins: “Striking a blow for anyone who has ever been rudely treated by government officials, a state appellate court ruled Thursday that city council members must actually listen when their constituents make official appeals before them.” You can find the court ruling here. Here is a snippet:
- We do not presume to tell the city council how it must conduct itself as a legislative body. Here, however, the city council was sitting in a quasi-judicial role, adjudicating the administrative appeal of constituents. A fundamental principle of due process is