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  • 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.)

  • 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.)

  • 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.)

  • City of Galt v. Cohen (Callander Associates Landscape Architecture, Inc.)

    Publication Date: 2017-06-05
    Practice Area: Government | Tax
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-06-02
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Best Best & Krieger, Iris P. Yang, Kimberly E. Hood for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Douglas J. Woods, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Mark R. Beckington, Susan K. Smith, and John W. Killeen, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Respondent.
    Case Number: No. C075897

    City's agreement with former redevelopment agency did not create enforceable obligations (Nicholson, Acting P.J.)

  • Weatherford v. City of San Rafael

    Publication Date: 2017-06-05
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Tax | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-06-05
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark T. Clausen for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Bertrand, Fox & Elliot, Bertrand, Fox Elliot, Osman & Wenzel, Thomas F. Bertrand and Richard W. Osman for Defendant and Respondent City of Rafael.
    Case Number:

    Resident need not have paid property taxes in order to have standing to file taxpayer waste action (Cuéllar, J.)

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    Florida Affirmative Defenses and Procedural Objections: With Forms 2024

    Authors: Joshua B. Spector, Paul D. Turner

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  • California Taxpayers Action Network v. Taber Construction, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2017-06-01
    Practice Area: Education Law | Government | Tax
    Industry: Construction | Education | State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-05-02
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for Appellants: Kevin R. Carlin, Carlin Law Group, A.P.C.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Respondent, Taber Construction: Jason R. Thornton, Louis J. Blum, Finch, Thornton & Baird, LLP
    Case Number: No. A145078

    Taxpayer association stated viable claim of conflict of interest with regard to lease-leaseback agreement (Miller, J.)

  • City and County of San Francisco v. Regents of the University of California

    Publication Date: 2017-05-26
    Practice Area: Tax | Government | Transportation
    Industry: State and Local Government | Transportation | Education
    Date Filed: 2017-05-25
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for Plaintiff and Appellant: Dennis J. Herrera; City Attorney, Jean H. Alexander; Chief Tax Attorney, Peter J. Keith; Deputy City Attorney.
    for defendant: Counsel for Defendant and Respondent: Kamala D. Harris; Attorney General of California, Paul D. Gifford; Senior Assistant Attorney General, Joyce E. Hee; Supervising Deputy Attorney General, David Lew; Deputy Attorney General, Robert E. Asperger; Deputy Attorney General, Benjamin P. Fay, Gabriel McWhirter; Jarvis, Fay, Doporto & Gibson, LLP, Elise Traynum, General Council; UC Hastings College of the Law, Charles F. Robinson, Karen J. Petrulakis, Margaret L. Wu; The Regents of the University of California Office of the General Counsel.
    Case Number: No. A144500

    State universities not required to collect and remit city parking tax on university-operated parking lots (Humes, P.J.)

  • Cameranesi v. United States Department of Defense

    Publication Date: 2017-05-08
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-05-08
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Phyllis J. Hamilton, Chief Judge, Presiding Before: Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Sandra S. Ikuta, and Paul J. Watford, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Duffy Carolan (argued), Jassy Vick Carolan LLP, San Francisco, California; Kent Spriggs, Spriggs Law Firm, Tallahassee, Florida; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
    for defendant: Steve Frank (argued) and Leonard Schaitman, Appellate Staff; Melinda Haag, United States Attorney; Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellants.
    Case Number: No. 14-16432

    Names of foreign students and instructors at Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation not subject to Freedom of Information Act disclosure (Ikuta, J.)

  • Bank of America Corporation v. City of Miami

    Publication Date: 2017-05-01
    Practice Area: Government | Regulation
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: U.S. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: Nos. 15–1111 Nos. 15–1112

    City may qualify as "aggrieved person" for purposes of filing suit under Fair Housing Act (Breyer, J.)

  • City of Santa Maria v. Cohen

    Publication Date: 2017-04-25
    Practice Area: Government | Tax
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-04-25
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Aleshire & Wynder, June S. Ailin and Lona N. Laymon for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Douglas J. Woods, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Stepan A. Haytayan, Deputy Attorney General, Jeffrey A. Rich, Deputy Attorney General, for Defendants and Respondents.
    Case Number: No. C081190

    Redevelopment property tax trust fund could not be used to make payments due on bonds (Robie, Acting P.J.)