NICOLE QUINTANA-WINTER Partner Gaspard Castillo Winter Harper, APC What one officer learned: You never think it will happen to you. And then it does After a full evidentiary hearing before a neutral hearing officer, a Fontana officer was exonerated of dishonesty charges and ordered returned to work. His […]
PAUL GOYETTE AND HARRY STERN LDF Panel Attorneys Goyette & Associates, Inc., and Rains Lucia Stern, PC Nearly a decade after Fresno police officers arrested a combative domestic violence suspect, a federal jury has finally ended their prolonged odyssey through the criminal justice system by acquitting them of charges of […]
A Court of Appeal determined yesterday that the California Public Records Act (“CPRA”) does not require public access to communications among public officials using private cell phones or personal e-mail accounts. In the City of San Jose v. The Superior Court of Santa Clara County (Smith, Real Party in Interest), […]
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 […]