CPOA Client Alerts-August 2023
Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. The following case summary has been provided by James R. Touchstone, Esq. Partner at Jones Mayer and CPOA’s General Counsel. Vol. 38 No. 11 …
Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. The following case summary has been provided by James R. Touchstone, Esq. Partner at Jones Mayer and CPOA’s General Counsel. Vol. 38 No. 11 …
Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. The following case summary has been provided by James R. Touchstone, Esq. Partner at Jones Mayer and CPOA’s General Counsel. Vol. 38 No. 9 …
Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. The following case summary has been provided by James R. Touchstone, Esq. Partner at Jones Mayer and CPOA’s General Counsel. Vol. 38 No. 6 …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. The following case summary has been provided by James R. Touchstone, Esq. Partner at Jones Mayer and CPOA’s General Counsel. Vol. 38 No. 5
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. The following case summary has been provided by James R. Touchstone, Esq. Partner at Jones Mayer and CPOA’s General Counsel. Vol. 38 No. 4
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. The following Case Summaries have been provided by James R. Touchstone, Esq., Partner at Jones Mayer and CPOA’s General Counsel. CPOA Client Alerts – …
Read More »Provided by James R. Touchstone Esq In Duncan v. Bonta,[1] the en banc Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a California statute which banned possession of magazines holding more …
Read More »Provided by James R. Touchstone Esq In J. K. J. v. City of San Diego,[1] the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a dismissal of an action alleging constitutional violations …
Read More »Provided by James R. Touchstone Esq On September 30, 2021, Senate Bill 16 (“SB 16”) was signed and chaptered into law and will take effect on January 1, 2022. This …
Read More »Provided by James R. Touchstone Esq In the case of Ballou v. McElvain,[1] the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of qualified immunity to a police chief on …
Read More »Provided by James R. Touchstone Esq In October 2021, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in GEO Grp., Inc. v. Newsom,[1] reversed a District Court’s order denying the United States’ …
Read More »Provided by James R. Touchstone Esq In October 2021, the United States Supreme Court, in its per curiam decision City of Tahlequah v. Bond,[1] concluded that a Circuit Court of …
Read More »Provided by James R. Touchstone Esq In the case Rivas-Villegas v. Cortesluna,[1] the United States Supreme Court reversed the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal’s decision denying qualified immunity to a …
Read More »Provided by James R. Touchstone Esq In Sanders v. City of Pittsburg,[1] the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a complaint brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. section …
Read More »Provided by James R. Touchstone Esq In People v. Raybon,[1] the California Supreme Court concluded that possession of cannabis in prison remains a violation of Penal Code section 4573.6, even …
Read More »Provided by James R. Touchstone Esq In Ohlson v. Brady,[1] the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals determined that public agency defendants were entitled to qualified immunity in an employee’s action …
Read More »Provided by James R. Touchstone Esq, Richard A. Lucero Esq On July 23, 2021, AB1475 was signed and chaptered into law, and will take effect on January 1, 2022. The …
Read More »Provided by James R. Touchstone In a 2-1 opinion, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in Lemos v. Cty. of Sonoma,[1] affirmed a District Court’s holding that a 42 U.S.C. …
Read More »Provided by James R. Touchstone, Esq. Richard A. Lucero, Esq. The persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the transmissibility associated with the Delta variant, and differing beliefs about personal autonomy and …
Read More »Provided by Gregory P. Palmer, Esq., James R. Touchstone, Esq., & Veronica R. Donovan, Esq. Background The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has recently reaffirmed a decades old California state …
Read More »Provided by James R. Touchstone, Esq. In the June 2021 case of Miller v. Bonta,[1] the United States District Court for the Southern District of California held that California statutes …
Read More »Provided by James R. Touchstone, Esq. In Lange v. California,[1] the United States Supreme Court held that an officer’s pursuit of a fleeing misdemeanor suspect does not categorically justify a …
Read More »Provided by James R. Touchstone, Esq. In Tobias v. Arteaga,[1] the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the denial of qualified immunity for officers with regards to a plaintiff’s Fourteenth …
Read More »Provided by James R. Touchstone, Esq. In a unanimous 9-0 decision, the United States Supreme Court in Caniglia v. Strom[1] rejected a lower court’s broad interpretation of the “community caretaking …
Read More »Provided by James R. Touchstone, Esq. In Oakland Police Officers’ Ass’n v. City of Oakland,[1] the California First District Court of Appeal concluded that the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill …
Read More »Provided by Gregory P. Palmer The First District Court of Appeal in Collondrez v. City of Rio Vista, (2021) 61 Cal. App. 5th 1039, issued a decision in which a …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq., Jones & Mayer In Young v. Hawaii,[1] the en banc Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Second Amendment does not guarantee an unfettered, …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In Hernandez v. Town of Gilbert,[1] the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that no clearly established law controlled in the specific context of …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In Moser v. Las Vegas Metro. Police Dept., the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a federal District Court did not adequately address …
Read More »Courtesy of Paul R. Coble, Esq. & Richard A. Lucero, Esq. of Jones & Mayer While the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine is advancing our effort to recover from the …
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