In 1999, the California Supreme Court upheld the Bagley-Keene Act's 30-day deadline for lawsuits charging that an action was taken illegally at a secret meeting.  The court rejected a lawsuit filed seven months after the fact by the student newspaper at UC Santa Barbara, the Daily Nexus, seeking to overturn the University of California Board of Regents' decision to abolish affirmative action (Regents of the University of California v. Superior Court).  The Daily Nexus charged that then-Gov. Pete Wilson conferred in private with enough regents before the vote that a consensus was reached privately, in violation of the Bagley-Keene Act.
     The legislature later amended the Bagley-Keene Act to extend the deadline for challenging actions taken at closed meetings from 30 days to 90 days.