Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In a case entitled Shorter v. Baca, (9th Cir. 2018) 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 19491, the Ninth Circuit recently determined that jail officials were …
Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On remand from the United States Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held, in Mendez v. Cnty. of L.A., 2018 U.S. App. …
Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On August 13, 2018, the Supreme Court of California held, in Ramirez v. City of Gardena, that a public agency’s pursuit policy must have …
Read More »Courtesy of: James R. Touchstone, Esq. In a decision entitled United States v. Luckett, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 18456 (9th Cir. July 6, 2018), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed …
Read More »Courtesy of: James R. Touchstone, Esq. and Paul R. Coble, Esq. In Daugherty v. City and County of San Francisco, 24 Cal. App. 5th 928 (1st Dist. 2018), published in July …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. and Keith F. Collins, Esq. On July 24, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided, in the case of Young v. State of Hawaii, …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In the case of United States v. California, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 112055 (E.D. Cal. July 5, 2018), a motion by the United States of …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On June 11, 2018, in the case of Vos v. City of Newport Beach, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 15633 (U.S. June 11, 2018), the Ninth …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. Communications configured by social media users to be “public” fall within the lawful consent exception of Stored Communication Act’s section 2702(b)(3), according to the …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On May 29, 2018, in the case of Collins v. Virginia, 2018 U.S. LEXIS 3210 (U.S. May 29, 2018), the Supreme Court of the …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On May 14, 2018, in the case of Byrd v. United States, 2018 U.S. LEXIS 2803 (U.S. May 14, 2018), the Supreme Court of …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On May 14, 2018, in the case of United States v. Sanchez-Gomez, 2018 U.S. LEXIS 2804 (U.S. May 14, 2018), the United States Supreme …
Read More »Courtesy of: James R. Touchstone, Esq. On April 2, 2018, in Kisela v. Hughes, 2018 U.S. LEXIS 2245 (U.S. Apr. 2, 2018), the United States Supreme Court held that, even assuming …
Read More »Courtesy of: James R. Touchstone, Esq. On April 2, 2018, in the case of People v. Buza, 2018 Cal. LEXIS 2245 (Cal. Apr. 2, 2018), the Supreme Court of California held …
Read More »Courtesy of: James R. Touchstone, Esq. & Krista MacNevin Jee, Esq. On January 25, 2018, the First District, Division One of the California Court of Appeal, issued a published opinion in In …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. Bonivert v. City of Clarkston, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 4625 (9th Cir. Feb. 26, 2018) Facts In January 2012, City of Clarkston, Washington (the “City”) …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. & Jamaar M. Boyd-Weatherby, Esq. Effective January 1, 2018, CalPERS contracting agencies and school employers are required to restrict “out of class appointments” to 960 …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. Silvester v. Becerra, 2018 U.S. LEXIS 897 (U.S. Feb. 20, 2018) On February 20, 2018, the United States Supreme Court denied the petition for …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. Perez v. City of Roseville, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 3212 (9th Cir. Feb. 9, 2018) Facts In January 2012, Janelle Perez was hired by …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. District of Columbia v. Wesby, 2018 U.S. LEXIS 760 (U.S. Jan. 22, 2018) Facts In March 2008, District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department received a …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. People v. Ovieda, 2018 Cal. App. LEXIS 34 (2nd Dist. Jan. 17, 2018) Facts In June 2015, the sister of plaintiff Ovieda told a 911 …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq., and Brittany E. Roberto, Esq. On January 8, 2018, Division Four of the First District Court of Appeal, in Alameda County Deputy Sheriff’s Association et …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On November 30, 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held, in Smith v. City of Santa Clara, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 24307 (9th Cir. …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On November 13, 2017, the California Court of Appeal for the Sixth Appellate District decided, in the case of People v. Zabala, 2017 Cal. App. …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In June 2017, the United States District Court for the Central District of California, in Roy v. County of Los Angeles,[1] concluded that the Fourth …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On September 15, 2017, a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in Woodward v. City of Tucson,[1] reversed the district court’s denial of …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. and Keith F. Collins, Esq. On September 14, 2017, the California Court of Appeal held, in a case entitled Diego v. City of Los Angeles,[1] …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq., and Keith F. Collins, Esq. On August 31, 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a suit could proceed that alleged an Oregon …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. and Brittany E. Roberto, Esq. On August 23, 2017, the Second District Court of Appeal, in Ramirez v. City of Gardena,[1] held that “promulgation” …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. and Deborah P. Knefel, Esq. On August 31, 2017, the California Supreme Court, in ACLU of Southern Calif. v. Super Court of Los Angeles (County …
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