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  • People v. Valencia

    Publication Date: 2017-07-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-07-03
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette and Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Stephen G. Herndon, Rachelle A. Newcomb, Peter W. Thompson and Darren K. Indermill, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Michael Satris, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant Clifford Paul Chaney.
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    Prop 47's definition of "unreasonable risk of danger to public safety" does not apply to resentencing proceedings under Three Strikes Reform Act (Cantil-Sakauye, C.J.)

  • Window Rock Unified School District v. Reeves

    Publication Date: 2017-06-30
    Practice Area: Native American Law | Education Law | Employment Litigation
    Industry: Education
    Date Filed: 2017-06-28
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Paul G. Rosenblatt, Senior District Judge, Presiding Before: Consuelo M. Callahan, Morgan Christen, and Michelle T. Friedland, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eileen Dennis GilBride (argued) and Georgia A. Staton, Jones Skelton & Hochuli P.L.C., Phoenix, Arizona; Patrice M. Horstman, Hufford Horstman Mongini Parnell & Tucker P.C., Flagstaff, Arizona; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
    for defendant: Paul Spruhan (argued), Navajo Nation Department of Justice, Window Rock, Arizona, for Defendants-Appellants Richie Nez, Casey Watchman, Ben Smith, Woody Lee, Jerry Bodie, and Evelyn Meadows.
    Case Number: No. 13-16259 No. 13-16278

    Tribal courts had jurisdiction over employment disputes involving Arizona public schools operating on tribal lands (Friedland, J.)

  • Jacobs v. The Regents of the University of California

    Publication Date: 2017-06-29
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government | Education
    Date Filed: 2017-05-30
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Castillo Harper and Michael A. Morguess for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Jones & Mayer, Martin J. Mayer, James R. Touchstone and Krista MacNevin Jee for Defendant and Respondent.
    Case Number: No. B268758

    Disabled University of California peace officers not "retired" (Ashmann-Gerst, Acting P.J.)

  • Morgado v. City and County of San Francisco

    Publication Date: 2017-06-29
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-06-27
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, Greg McLean Adam, Jonathan Yank and Jennifer S. Stoughton for San Francisco Police Officers Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Dennis J. Herrera, City Attorney, Elizabeth Salveson, Chief Labor Attorney, Rafal Ofierski, Deputy City Attorney, for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number: No. A141681

    Lack of administrative appeal process violated statutory due process rights of terminated police officer (Streeter, J.)

  • Jacks v. City of Santa Barbara

    Publication Date: 2017-06-29
    Practice Area: Tax | Public Utilities
    Industry: Energy
    Date Filed: 2017-06-29
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Huskinson, Brown & Heidenreich, David W.T. Brown and Paul E. Heidenreich for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Ariel Pierre Calonne, City Attorney, Tom R. Shapiro, Assistant City Attorney; Colantuono, Highsmith & Whatley, Michael G. Colantuono, Ryan Thomas Dunn, Leonard P. Aslanian; Jarvis, Fay, Doporto & Gibson, Benjamin P. Fay, Rick W. Jarvis and Andrea Saltzman for Defendant and Respondent.
    Case Number: No. S225589

    Legality of surcharge added to utility bills depended on relationship to actual value of municipal property interest that surcharge was intended to compensate (Cantil-Sakauye, C.J.)

  • Sato v. Orange County Department of Education

    Publication Date: 2017-06-29
    Practice Area: Education Law | Government | Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government | Education
    Date Filed: 2017-06-28
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Josephine L. Staton, District Judge, Presiding Before: Richard C. Tallman and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges, and Stephen Joseph Murphy III,*District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas A. Ames (argued), Ames Law Office, Fountain Valley, California, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey P. Thompson (argued) and Gregory A. Wille, Declues Burkett & Thompson APC, Huntington Beach, California, for Defendant-Appellee.
    Case Number: No. 15-56402

    Assembly Bill 97 did not deprive California school districts of Eleventh Amendment immunity from suit (Tallman, J.)

  • City of Pasadena v. Superior Court (Jauregui)

    Publication Date: 2017-06-28
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-06-26
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Foley & Mansfeld, Keith M. Ameele, Joseph V. Macha, M. Amadea Groseclose, Margaret I. Johnson; Office of the Pasadena City Attorney, Michele Beal Bagneris, City Attorney, and John Nam, Deputy City Attorney, for Petitioner.
    for defendant: No appearance for Respondent. Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood, Joseph Satterley, Denyse F. Clancy, and Ian A. Rivamonte, for Real Parties in Interest.
    Case Number: No. B280805

    Claimants' cause of action for asbestos injury accrued upon date of discovery (Manella, J.)

  • Hardie v. National Collegiate Athletic Association

    Publication Date: 2017-06-28
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Date Filed: 2017-06-27
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Gonzalo P. Curiel, District Judge, Presiding Before: Richard C. Tallman and Michelle T. Friedland, Circuit Judges, and David A. Faber,*District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Sigel (argued) and Jack W. Londen, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, California; Brian R. Matsui, Morrison & Foerster LLP, Washington, D.C.; Jon Greenbaum, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C.; Jeffrey M. David, Call & Jensen, Newport Beach, California; for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Seth P. Waxman (argued), Ari Holtzblatt, David M. Lehn, and Daniel S. Volchok, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C., for Defendant-Appellee.
    Case Number: No. 15-55576

    NCAA policy restricting coaching by persons with felony convictions not shown to violate Title II (Tallman, J.)

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