GREGG ADAM Founding Partner TEAL MILLER Associate Attorney Messing Adam & Jasmine LLP Your work time matters and, under a new California Supreme Court ruling, must be compensated — even if it amounts to relatively small periods of time. The July 26 ruling in Troester v. Starbucks Corp. (July 26, […]
Yearly Archives: 2018
CHRISTOPHER NISSEN Associate Attorney Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, PC On June 22, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5–4 decision, held that the government’s acquisition of records from wireless carriers that show a cellphone user’s location based on cell-site connections constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment1 […]
KEN YUWILER Partner Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, PC An interrogation is simply a question-and-answer session. It need not be “formal,” nor does it have to occur through the internal affairs or professional standards unit. It occurs whenever someone is questioned. In the context of internal affairs investigations, […]
JENNIFER R. LOFLIN Associate Attorney Castillo Harper, APC The right to fair and complete notice and disclosure in the context of an administrative investigation and subsequent proceedings has been defined in the law since the long-standing Skelly decision back in 1975. Originally, in Skelly, the Supreme Court stated that at […]
GARY MESSING Founding Partner GREGG ADAM Founding Partner YONATAN MOSKOWITZ Attorney Messing Adam & Jasmine LLP In a majority opinion by Justice Samuel Alito, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31 that “fair-share fees” or “agency fees” are unconstitutional […]