RALPHS GROCERY COMPANY v. UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS UNION LOCAL Part-I
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-1698443-1"; urchinTracker(); </script> <html ><br /> <head><br /> <title>RALPHS GROCERY COMPANY v</title><br /> </head><br /> <body><br /> <div><br /> <br/><b >RALPHS GROCERY COMPANY v. UNITED FOOD<br /> AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS </b><b >UNION</b><b<br /> > LOCAL</b><br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/>Filed 7/19/10<br /> <br/><u> </u><br /> <br/><u> </u><br /> <br/><u> </u><br /> <br/><u> </u><br /> <br/><u> </u><br /> <br/><u> </u><br /> <br/><u>CERTIFIED<br /> FOR PUBLICATION</u><br /> <br/><u> </u><br /> <br/><u> </u><br /> <br/>IN THE COURT OF<br /> APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA<br /> <br/>THIRD APPELLATE<br /> DISTRICT<br /> <br/>(Sacramento)<br /> <br/>----<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0<br /> ><br /> <tr ><br /> <td width=394 valign=top ><br /> <br/>RALPHS GROCERY COMPANY,<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> Plaintiff and Appellant,<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> v.<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/>UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL<br /> WORKERS UNION LOCAL 8,<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> Defendant and Respondent.<br /> <br/> <br /> </td><br /> <td width=230 valign=top ><br /> <br/>C060413<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/>(Super.<br /> Ct. No.<br /> <br/>34-2008-00008682-CU-OR-GDS)<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> </td><br /> </tr><br /> </table><br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> APPEAL<br /> from a judgment of the Superior Court<br /> of Sacramento<br /> County, Loren E. McMaster, Judge. Reversed with directions.<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> Morrison<br /> & Foerster, Miriam A. Vogel, Timothy F. Ryan, and Tritia M. Murata, for<br /> Plaintiff and Appellant.<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> Littler<br /> Mendelson, William J. Emanuel, and Natalie Rainforth for Employers Group,<br /> California Grocers Association, and California Hospital Association, as Amici<br /> Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> Davis,<br /> Cowell & Bowe, Sarah Grossman-Swenson, Elizabeth A. Lawrence, and Andrew J.<br /> Kahn, for Defendant and Respondent.<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> Edmund<br /> G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, J. Matthew Rodriquez, Chief Assistant Attorney<br /> General, Manuel M. Medeiros, Solicitor General, Louis Verdugo, Jr., Senior<br /> Assistant Attorney General, Angela Sierra and Antonette Benita Cordero, Deputy<br /> Attorneys General, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent. <br /> <br/> In this case, a<br /> union peacefully picketed in front of a grocery store, a private forum,<br /> contrary to the grocery store's demands that the union not use the private<br /> property for its expressive activities (its â€