letters, Rodgers requested that City comply with the Act by disclosing the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of airport noise complainants. City had refused to do so. Additionally, City submitted a copy of an article from a newsletter captioned "California Pilot, Official Publication of California Pilots Association[,] The Airport Defenders," dated May 1995. The newsletter article was entitled "The More You Complain, the More You Must Disclose" and discussed Rodgers's efforts to obtain disclosure of the identity of airport noise complainants. Included in the article was the following statement: "The effect of Rodgers' message on complaining homeowners and anti-airport groups has been salutary.... [¶] As reported last month, the latest shining example of how well the disclosure law works when anti-airport groups are given the message, is thetelephone numbers would chill further complaints, noting that City's evidence of potential harassment by pilots' organizations was based on old letters which lacked probative value, and because there was no evidence of pilots' organizations actually intimidating a noise complainant. On June 23, 1998, the court issued the writ of mandate as requested by the Mercury News.
Subsequently, City filed a motion for reconsideration pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 1008, contending that it had new evidence of the threat of intimidation of airport noise complainants by the Aircraft Pilots organization. The new evidence submitted by City included more recent letters from the Aircraft Pilots organization to the manager of the Van Nuys Airport, in which the organization requested disclosure of name, address and telephone number of a frequent