Courtesy of Gregory P. Palmer, Esq. and James R. Touchstone, Esq. On August 26, 2019 the California Supreme Court, unanimously, overturned the Second District Court of Appeal in the case …
Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On August 19, 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 392 into law. Of note, Governor Newsom’s office and members of the legislature took significant …
Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In People v. Ovieda,[1] the California Supreme Court held that the community caretaking exception does not apply in the absence of exigency. In reaching …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In the July 2019 case of People v. Rubio,[1] the California First District Court of Appeal held that a warrantless entry into a locked …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In July 2019, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in Rodriguez v. City of San Jose,[1] held that a wife’s Second Amendment claim, arising …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In Cal. Pub. Records Research, Inc. v. Cnty. of Alameda,[1] the California First District Court of Appeal held that a county could consider a …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In July 2019, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in City of L.A. v. Barr,[1] reversed a District Court’s summary judgment in favor of …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In a plurality opinion, the United States Supreme Court recently held, in the opinion entitled Mitchell v. Wisconsin[1], that the exigent circumstances exception to …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In June 2019 in Greisen v. Hanken,[1] the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a District Court’s decision upholding a jury verdict in favor …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In June 2019, the California Second District Court of Appeal held, in Conger v. Cty. of L.A.,[1] that a police department’s decision to deny …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In a unanimous decision, entitled Fort Bend Cty. v. Davis,[1] the United States Supreme Court held that a certain Title VII requirement was a …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In June 2019, United States v. Brown,[1] the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the combination of an anonymous tip suggesting no crime …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In People v. Raybon,[1] the California Third District Court of Appeal held the plain language of Health & Safety Code section 11362.1 demonstrated the …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On May 28, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States, in Nieves v. Bartlett, 2019 U.S. LEXIS 3557 (May 28, 2019) held that …
Read More »by James R. Touchstone, Esq. The California First District Court, in Martinez v. Pub. Employees’ Ret. Sys., 2019 Cal. App. LEXIS 311 (1st Dist. Apr. 4, 2019), affirmed a trial …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in United States v. California, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 11275 (9th Cir. Apr. 18, 2019) rejected arguments by …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. Taylor v. City of Saginaw, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 11586 (6th Cir. Apr. 22, 2019) On April 22, 2019, the Sixth District Court of …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals published an order in Martin v. City of Boise which denied a petition for panel rehearing, denied a …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In a 5-4 opinion, the United States Supreme Court majority in Bucklew v. Precythe, 2019 U.S. LEXIS 2477 (Apr. 1, 2019), held that an …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. The United States District Court for the Southern District of California recently held, in the case entitled Duncan v. Becerra[1],that California Penal Code section …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On March 29, 2019, the California First District Court of Appeal denied the consolidated petitions for writ of supersedeas filed by the Walnut Creek …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In an opinion issued on March 25, 2019, in the case entitled Steinle v. City & Cnty. of S.F.[1], the Ninth Circuitdetermined that the …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In the March 15, 2019, in the case of United States v. Korte,[1] the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a District Court’s denial …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In an opinion filed on March 18, 2019, the California Second District Court of Appeal in Boyer v. Cnty. of Ventura[1]held that certain law …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In the March 4, 2019 case of Buffin v. City & Cnty. of S.F.,[1] the California Northern District Court granted the plaintiffs’ motion for …
Read More »On March 4, 2019, the California Supreme Court, in Cal Fire Local 2881 v. California Public Employees’ Retirement System,[1] affirmed the lower courts’ determinations that the opportunity to purchase additional …
Read More »On February 20, 2019 in the case of Timbs v. Indiana, 2019 U.S. LEXIS 1350 (Feb. 20, 2019), the United States Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In the case of People v. Marquez, 2019 Cal. App. LEXIS 48 (4th Dist. Jan. 15, 2019), the California Fourth District Court of Appeal …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On January 11, 2019 in the case of Olivier v. Baca, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 1019 (9th Cir. Jan. 11, 2019), the Ninth Circuit …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On January 9, 2019, in the case of United States v. Johnson, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 640 (9th Cir. Jan. 9, 2019), the Ninth …
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