BILL HADDEN Partner Silver, Hadden, Silver & Levine Once again, an arbitrator has overturned a lengthy disciplinary pay reduction previously imposed by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, finding it without any just cause. On May 17, 2014, Arbitrator Michael Prihar revoked in its entirety the 120-hour reduction given to Sergeant […]
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RUSSELL PERRY Associate ZACHERY LOPES Associate Rains Lucia Stern, PC San Bernardino County Probation Corrections Officer (PCO) Harold Guinn has been reinstated to his position after a 10-month contentious legal fight with the County. PCO Guinn fought the Probation Department’s desperate and vindictive attempt to terminate him without completing a […]
(As amended through April 28, 2014) Pursuant to Article VII of the Plan Document and to Article VI, Section 3 of the Trust Agreement, the Board of Trustees of the PORAC Legal Defense Fund hereby amends the Plan Document as follows: The first sentence of Section 5 of Article II […]
BRENDON P. PARENTI Associate Attorney Mastagni Holstedt, APC When the Sonoma Civil Service Commission reinstated Juvenile Correctional Counselor II John Palmini on September 4, 2014, it was the end of a nearly year-long ordeal for Palmini, caused by a careless investigation based on wild theories and accusations by the Sonoma […]
SARAH BURDICK Associate Attorney Rains Lucia Stern, PC A neutral arbitrator has recently made an unprecedented award in an Oakland POA discipline case. The arbitrator awarded full back pay for a served five-day suspension, plus interest and attorneys’ fees, and fully overturned all sustained allegations in an appeal action against […]