San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed’s 2014 statewide pension reform initiative suffered what seems to be a fatal blow for this year. This afternoon, a Sacramento County trial court rejected a lawsuit challenging the wording that the Attorney General, Kamala Harris, used in the state’s required, official summary of the measure. […]
U.S. Supreme Court Declines To Hear City’s Appeal In Retaliation Case by Michael P. Stone, Esq. and Muna Busailah, Esq. On February 24, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the City of Burbank’s petition to grant hearing (certiorari) in City of Burbank v. Angelo Dahlia, No. 10-55978. Thus, the Ninth Circuit’s […]
by Michael P. Stone and Ted Dokko Quezada v. City of Los Angeles (January 8, 2014, B245879) – Cal. Rptr 3rd –, Cal. App. 2nd Dist The Facts Three Los Angeles Police officers, two males and one female, finished their regular work shift at 11 p.m. and went to a […]
JOHN BARNETT Attorney Barnett & Barnett In the award-winning movie about the Mercury space program, The Right Stuff, astronaut Gus Grissom succinctly described exactly how and why the program succeeded in putting the first Americans into space: “No bucks, no Buck Rogers.” In other words, without funding, and a lot […]
JULIA HICKMAN Associate Attorney Rains Lucia Stern, PC In the previous installment of the Officer Wendy Cross saga, the Oakland Police Department administration lost at arbitration after attempting to discipline Officer Cross for doing too much: The Department argued that Cross’ proactive police work involving a 647(f) arrest and a […]