• People ex rel. Pierson v. Superior Court (South Lake Tahoe Police Officers Association)

    Publication Date: 2017-01-11
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-01-10
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vern Pierson, District Attorney (El Dorado), William M. Clark, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Patrick O'Toole and Jerry Coleman, District Attorneys, for Petitioner.
    for defendant: No appearance for Respondent Superior Court. Mastagni Holstedt, Judith A. Odbert, Joshua A. Olander and Tashayla D. Billington for Real Parties in Interest South Lake Tahoe Police Officers' Association and South Lake Tahoe Police Supervisors' Association.

    Case Number: No. C081603

    Cite as 17 C.D.O.S. 253 THE PEOPLE ex rel. VERN PIERSON, as District Attorney, etc., Petitione

  • 4Front engineered Solutions, Inc. v. Rosales, 15-0298 (TexApp Dist 12/23/2016)

    Publication Date: 2017-01-05
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2016-12-23
    Court: Supreme Court of Texas
    Judge: JEFFREY S. BOYD JUSTICE
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 15-0298

    ON PETITION FOR REVIEW FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXASArgued October 4, 2016JEFFREY S. BOYD JUSTICEJUSTIC

  • January 5, 2017 |

    Allen v. Bryers

    Click Here for FC&S Legal Expert Analysis  Allenv.Bryers2016 WL 7378560Only the Westlaw citation is currently available.NOTICE: THIS OPINION…

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  • Connors v. National Transportation Safety Board

    Publication Date: 2017-01-04
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Transportation | Criminal Law
    Industry: Transportation
    Date Filed: 2017-01-04
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: Marsha S. Berzon and Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Circuit Judges, and Jack Zouhary,**District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Hajek, Esq., Del Mar, California, for Petitioner.
    for defendant: Benjamin C. Mizer, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Mark B. Stern and Katherine Twomey Allen, Attorneys, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. for Respondent Michael P. Huerta.

    Case Number: No. 15-70333

    Cite as 17 C.D.O.S. 67 PAUL CONNORS, Petitioner, v. NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY

  • PEOPLE, res, v. LAMAR PIERCE

    Publication Date: 2017-01-03
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT
    Judge: Acosta, JJ.J.P., Renwick, Andrias, Saxe, Gische, JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2556

    2556. PEOPLE, res, v. LAMAR PIERCE, def-ap Seymour W. James, Jr., The Legal Aid Society, New York (Joanne Legano Ross of counsel), for ap Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bruce Allen, J.),

  • Cal Fire Local 2881 v. California Public Employees Retirement System

    Publication Date: 2016-12-30
    Practice Area: Employment Compliance | Government
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2016-12-30
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for Appellants Cal Fire Local 2881 et al.: Gary M. Messing, Gregg McLean Adam, Jason H. Jasmine, CARROLL, BURDICK & McDONOUGH LLP
    for defendant: Counsel for Respondents California Public Employees' Retirement System et al.: Matthew G. Jacobs, Wesley E. Kennedy, CALIFORNIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM

    Case Number: No. A142793

    Cite as 17 C.D.O.S. 4 CAL FIRE LOCAL 2881 et al., Petitioners and Appellants, v. CALIFORNIA

  • December 29, 2016 | The Recorder

    Decision on Attorney-Client Privilege Spooks Defense Bar

    A closely divided California Supreme Court on Thursday limited the protection afforded to legal bills under the attorney-client privilege when those bills are sent to government entities and

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  • December 29, 2016 | Litigation Daily

    2016 in Review: Litigators of the Week, Take a Bow

    Each Friday, The Lit Daily features the “Litigator of the Week,” an honor that goes to the lawyer or team that achieved the most noteworthy result in a lawsuit in the preceding

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  • Mosley v. State

    Publication Date: 2016-12-28
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin A. Anderson Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and David K. Getachew-Smith District Attorney's Office, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A16A1096

    The trial court's communications with the jury were not coercive so as to cause a juror to abandon an honest conviction for reasons other than those based upon the trial or the argument

  • Washington v. State

    Publication Date: 2016-12-28
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jacque Hawk The Hawk Firm, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rebecca A. Wright, District Attorney, and Joshua Smith District Attorney's Office, Augusta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A16A1430

    The trial court abused its discretion in denying defendant's double jeopardy plea in bar as to felony m