Posted by Andy Schlenker Your Legal Defense Fund administrative coverage provides a defense to any administrative disciplinary action up through and including the Skelly hearing. Afterward, LDF will only defend those matters that are determined to be within the “scope of employment,” such as allegations of excessive force used during […]
This is a summary of the annual report for the Legal Defense Fund of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, (Employer ID No. 23—7077256, Plan No. 501) for the year ended December 31, 2010. The annual report has been filed with the EBSA as required under the Employee Retirement […]
Posted by Gary Messing With interest arbitration for California public employees already severely threatened, if not already on “endangered species” lists, it was heartening, from the employee perspective, for the governor to sign into law Assembly Bill 646. Effective January 1, 2012, AB 646 amends the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act to give […]
Posted by Mike Rains The Plaintiffs in this civil rights action were survivors of Asa Sullivan, who was shot and killed by San Francisco police officers on June 6, 2006. The individual officers who had shot Sullivan sought to be dismissed from the lawsuit on a grant of qualified immunity, […]
Posted by Andy Schlenker Over this past year, the Fund has continued its long and well-established history of providing our members with excellent legal representation in the face of unprecedented economic challenges. I, along with the Board of Trustees, continue to focus our efforts to ensure that the highest level […]