GREGG ADAM Partner Messing Adam & Jasmine LLP We live in extraordinary times. None more so than our first responders, who bravely battle on the front lines of this global pandemic. Dramatic changes are likely to pervade all of our lives even when, to whatever degree, state and local emergency […]
Yearly Archives: 2020
GREGG ADAM Partner Messing Adam & Jasmine LLP Longtime readers will recall during the mid-to-late 2000s, when “donning and doffing” cases under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) were all the rage. These actions were filed after the United States Supreme Court (commonly known as “SCOTUS” to practitioners) ruled […]
Zachery Lopes Attorneys Rains, Lucia, Stern, St. Phalle and Silver, PC. In early 2019, over a dozen lawsuits in as many counties were filed by law enforcement employee associations challenging the intended “retroactive” application of Senate Bill (SB) 1421 — arguing that the law was not intended to allow […]
ROGER D. WILSON Senior Trial Counsel Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, PC In the last issue of PORAC Law Enforcement News, you were introduced to the tragic accident that was compounded by the criminal charging of Jared Mullis, a detective with the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office. We last […]
ROBERT RABE, ESQ. Associate Attorney Stone Busailah, LLP On September 3, 2017, Yolo County Sheriff’s Sergeant Machado detained the occupants of a boating vessel on the Sacramento River for speed-related violations of the Harbors and Navigation Code. During this detention, Machado made contact with defendant Gutierrez, the operator of the […]