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 …
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 …
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 …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On December 20, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided two related cases involving a Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) regulation governing threats made …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On January 3, 2019, the Division of Law Enforcement of the California Department of Justice released an information bulletin pertaining to the preservation of …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On August 16, 2018 in the case of County of San Diego v. Commn on State Mandates, 2018 Cal. LEXIS 8819 (Cal., Nov. 19, …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. In the case of Bacilio v. City of L.A., 2018 Cal. App. LEXIS 968 (2nd Dist. Oct. 25, 2018), the California Second District Court …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On August 16, 2018 in the case of Smith v. Superior Court of San Francisco, 2018 Cal. App. LEXIS 931 (San Francisco County Superior …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On September 7, 2018 in In re Edwards, 26 Cal. App. 5th 1181 (2018), the California Second District Court of Appeal granted the petition …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. & Keth F. Collins, Esq. On September 30, 2018 Governor Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 748 (“AB 748”) which added language to the …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. & Gregory P. Palmer, Esq. Governor Brown recently signed into law Senate Bill 1421 (“SB 1421”) which changed the confidential status of certain records …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On September 13, 2018 in the case of City of Los Angeles v. Jefferson B. Sessions, 293 F. Supp. 3d 1087 (C.D. Cal. 2018), …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. & Paul R. Coble, Esq. As reported to you in an earlier Client Alert (Vol. 33 No. 23; July 27, 2018) the First District …
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