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 …
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 …
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 …
Read More »Courtesy of Paul R. Coble, Esq. & Richard A. Lucero, Esq. The availability of effective vaccines offers a major advancement in our emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic. As a component …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In Wright v. Beck,[1] the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a plaintiff, who continued to assert a claim of right to previously …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In a case filed on October 27, 2020, in Cortesluna v. Luna,[1] the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the lower court’s grant of …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Ventura v. Rutledge[1] concluded that an officer who used deadly force was entitled to qualified immunity. In …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq., Jones & Mayer On August 26, 2020, the Supreme Court of California issued an order making a part of the California First District Court …
Read More »Courtesy of Greg Palmer, Jones & Mayer On August 24, 2020, the Court of Appeal of the State of California for the Fourth Appellate District affirmed the decision of the …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On August 27, 2020, in the case of Gund v. County of Trinity,[1] the California Supreme Court found that plaintiffs, who were injured by …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In the August 2020 case of Facebook, Inc. v. Superior Court (Stephan),[1] the California Supreme Court directed trial courts to explicitly consider and balance …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On August 14, 2020, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Duncan v. Becerra,[1] held that a California statute that banned possession of large-capacity …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In the July 2020 case of Monzon v. City of Murrieta,[1] the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that officers acted in an objectively …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. Background The California Supreme Court recently reviewed the validity of the “California Rule” in the context of the case entitled Alameda County Deputy Sheriff’s …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In the July 2020 case of City & Cnty. of S.F. v. Barr,[1] the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a permanent injunction barring …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel James R. Touchstone, Esq. and David R. Demurjian, Esq., Jones & Mayer In the case entitled U.S. v. Grey, the Court of Appeals for the …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel, James R. Touchstone, Esq., Jones & Mayer California and the nation are experiencing large-scale community reaction following the tragic death, at the hands of law …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel, Gregory P. Palmer, Jones & Mayer On May 28, 2020, the California Supreme Court issued the long-awaited opinion in National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco Bay …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel James R. Touchstone, Esq., Jones & Mayer As part of California’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, the Judicial Council, on April 6, 2020, adopted Emergency …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel James R. Touchstone, Esq., Jones & Mayer In a 6-3 decision on April 27, 2020, the United States Supreme Court in N.Y. State Rifle & …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel James R. Touchstone, Esq., Jones & Mayer On April 23, 2020, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in Wilk v. Neven,[1] held that prison officials …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel, James R. Touchstone, Esq. and Richard A. Lucero, Esq. The COVID-19 pandemic has altered many of the most fundamental expectancies of our democratic republic. Personal liberty, …
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