ANDREW M. DAWSON Founding Partner Dawson & Riley, LLP The Oxnard Police Department, like most law enforcement agencies with K-9 units, has had the occasional misfortune of dealing with accidental dog bites. This is an unfortunate reality of operating a K-9 unit. However, these incidents are not egregious actions by […]
HARRY S. STERN Managing Partner Rains Lucia Stern Nearly two decades ago, the great constitutional scholar George Anastaplo asked me to contribute to a law review article he was writing about the aftermath of O.J. Simpson’s acquittal of murder charges by a jury in Los Angeles. I had something of […]
SEAN D. HOWELL Senior Associate Attorney Mastagni Holstedt, APC A common issue that arises in the practice of representing peace officers is employers’ increasingly clever methods of “keeping book” on their peace officer employees without the employees’ knowledge. Secret files and varying methods of storing documents — be it on […]
After a 12-day hearing and lengthy briefs, an arbitrator rendered a final and binding award revoking the termination of Beverly Hills Police Department Sergeant Richard Ceja, who was dismissed in April 2012. The arbitrator ordered that Ceja be reinstated, with the complete restoration of all lost wages and benefits. For […]
MICHAEL P. STONE Founder and Principal Partner Stone Busailah, LLP On December 1, 2014, in San Francisco, the California Supreme Court published its much-awaited decision in the closely watched case Riverside County Sheriff’s Department v. Stiglitz (Kristy Drinkwater, Real Party in Interest) No. S206350. The case concerns the authority and […]