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  • People v. Spaccia

    Publication Date: 2017-06-27
    Practice Area: White Collar Crime
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-06-23
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Victoria B. Wilson, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Idan Ivri, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Dwyer + Kim and John P. Dwyer, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number: No. B256046

    Overbroad jury instruction prejudiced assistant city manager charged with misappropriating public funds (Lavin, J.)

  • People v. Superior Court (Sahlolbei)

    Publication Date: 2017-06-26
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry: Health Care | State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-06-26
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul E. Zellerbach and Michael A. Hestrin, District Attorneys, Elaina Gambera Bentley, Assistant District Attorney, Kelli M. Catlett and Emily R. Hanks, Deputy District Attorneys, for Petitioner.
    for defendant: No appearance for Respondent. Brown White & Newhouse, Brown White & Osborn and Kenneth P. White for Real Party in Interest.
    Case Number:

    Independent contractor charged with transacting business on behalf of public entity may be held criminally liable for conflicts of interest (Liu, J.)

  • Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer

    Publication Date: 2017-06-26
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
    Industry: State and Local Government | Education
    Date Filed: 2017-06-26
    Court: U.S. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: No. 15–577

    State violated Free Exercise Clause of First Amendment by denying church available public benefit due to its religious status (Roberts, C.J.)

  • Kirola v. City and County of San Francisco

    Publication Date: 2017-06-22
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government | Entertainment and Leisure
    Date Filed: 2017-06-22
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Saundra B. Armstrong, District Judge, Presiding Before: Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, Ronald M. Gould, and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Guy B. Wallace (argued), Jennifer A. Uhrowczik, Sarah Colby, and Mark T. Johnson, Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky Wotkyns LLP, Emeryville, California; Monique Olivier, Duckworth Peters Lebowitz Olivier LLP, San Francisco, California; James C. Sturdevant, The Sturdevant Law Firm, San Francisco, California; Ray A. Wendell, Linda M. Dardarian, and Barry Goldstein, Goldstein Borgen Dardarian & Ho, Oakland, California; José R. Allen, Palo Alto, California; for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: James M. Emery (argued) and Elaine M. O'Neil, Deputy City Attorneys; Ronald P. Flynn, Chief Deputy City Attorney; Dennis J. Herrera, City Attorney; Office of the City Attorney, San Francisco, California; for Defendants-Appellees.
    Case Number: No. 14-17521

    District court erroneously rejected plaintiff's experts findings regarding City of San Francisco's alleged violations of ADA accessibility guidelines (Gould, J.)

  • Zhu v. Workers Compensation Appeals Board

    Publication Date: 2017-06-21
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Health Care | State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-06-20
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Law Offices of F. Michael Sabzevar and F. Michael Sabzevar for Petitionier.
    for defendant: Anne Schmitz and Allison J. Fairchild for Respondent Workers' Compensation Appeals Board.
    Case Number: No. B278696

    Going and coming rule did not bar state employee's claim for benefits based on injuries sustained while traveling between clients' homes (Kriegler, Acting P.J.)

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  • SJJC Aviation Services, LLC v. City of San Jose (Signature Flight Support Corporation)

    Publication Date: 2017-06-21
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Transportation
    Industry: Transportation | State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-05-24
    Court: C.A. 6th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for Plaintiff and Appellant, SJJC Aviation Services, LLC: David P. Lanferman, Ash Pirayou, Peter J. Howell, Alan B. Fenstermacher, Rutan & Tucker.
    for defendant: Counsel for Defendants and Respondents, City of San Jose, et al.: Richard Doyle, City Attorney, Nora Frimann, Ardell Johnson, Margo Laskowska, Office of the City Attorney.
    Case Number: No. H041035

    Unsuccessful bidder did not show "beneficial interest" required for standing to challenge the bidding result (Eli, J.)

  • City of Big Bear Lake v. Cohen

    Publication Date: 2017-06-14
    Practice Area: Government | Tax
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-06-14
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Best Best & Krieger, Iris P. Yang and Irene S. Zurko for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Douglas J. Woods, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Marc A. LeForestier and Nancy J. Doig, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendants and Respondents.
    Case Number: No. C076576

    City's contracts not enforceable obligations of former redevelopment agency (Nicholson, J.)

  • Plantier v. Ramona Municipal Water District

    Publication Date: 2017-06-13
    Practice Area: Public Utilities
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-06-13
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patterson Law Group, James R. Patterson, Allison H. Goddard, Catherine S. Wicker; Carlson Lynch Sweet Kilpela & Carpenter and Todd D. Carpenter for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch, Kendra J. Hall, Gregory V. Moser, John D. Alessio and Adriana R. Ochoa for Defendant and Respondent.
    Case Number: No. D069798

    No exhaustion requirement for lawsuit challenging water district's methodology for calculating wastewater usage (Benke, Acting P.J.)

  • DiCarlo v. County of Monterey

    Publication Date: 2017-06-06
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-05-24
    Court: C.A. 6th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Plaintiffs and Appellants, John DiCarlo, James Bass, Michael Shapiro, and Richard Perez: David E. Mastagni, Isaac Sean Stevens, Mastagni Holstedt APC.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Defendants and Respondents, County of Monterey, County of Monterey Sheriff's Office, Lew Bauman, and Michael Miller: Charles J. McKee, County Counsel, Michael R. Philippi, Deputy County Counsel, County of Monterey.
    Case Number: No. H041400

    County employees' combined longevity-performance stipend not item of special compensation for purposes of calculating public retirement benefits (Bamattre-Manoukian, J.)

  • Lowry v. City of San Diego

    Publication Date: 2017-06-06
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-06-06
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Michael M. Anello, District Judge, Presiding Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, and Alex Kozinski, Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, Richard C. Tallman, Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Richard R. Clifton, Carlos T. Bea, Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Paul J. Watford, Andrew D. Hurwitz and John B. Owens, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nathan A. Shaman (argued) and Jeffrey A. Lake, Jeffrey A. Lake A.P.C., San Diego, California, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Stacy J. Plotkin-Wolff (argued), Deputy City Attorney; Daniel F. Bamberg, Assistant City Attorney; Jan I. Goldsmith, City Attorney; Office of the City Attorney San Diego, California; for Defendant-Appellee.
    Case Number: No. 13-56141

    Police officers' use of police dog in investigating suspected burglary not unreasonable (Clifton, J.)