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 […]
RUSSELL M. PERRY Partner ZACHERY A. LOPES Associate Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, PC On May 31, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling of significant importance to peace officers tasked with gaining compliance with lawful orders during mass crowd control situations. In a published opinion […]
ANDREW M. DAWSON Partner KIMBERLY D. RILEY Partner Dawson & Riley, LLP A San Gabriel Police dispatcher was terminated in March 2017 regarding alleged misconduct that had occurred in October 2015. The Department knew of the alleged misconduct and failed to notify her of its proposed discipline until December 2016. […]
PAUL BIRD Attorney Messing Adam & Jasmine LLP After an accomplished 23-year career as a police captain, the last words one expects to read in a letter from the city manager are: “You’ve been terminated because you are a liar.” Yet that was Captain Mark Gagan’s fate, laid out in […]
SUSAN R. JERICH Attorney at Law Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, PC I once represented a client who worked as a motor officer in Riverside County. Years of riding a motorcycle had caused significant and permanent injury to his hands and arms. Finally, after grinning and bearing it […]