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 …
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 …
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, …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel James R. Touchstone, Esq., Jones & Mayer On April 23, 2020, the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, in Rhode v. …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel, Paul R. Coble and James R. Touchstone, Jones & Mayer On April 22, 2020, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-54-20 (“the Order”) in which are …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel James R. Touchstone, Esq., Jones & Mayer In an 8-1 decision, in Kansas v. Glover,1 the Supreme Court of the United States held that when …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel, Paul R. Coble, Jones & Mayer A recurrent question of late has been what, if any, information can be relayed to first responders – Police …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel, Paul R. Coble, Jones & Mayer By Executive Order dated March 30, 2020, Governor Newsom extended the statute of limitations under Govt. Code §3304(d) by …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel, James R. Touchstone and Richard A. Lucero, Jones & Mayer The pandemic circumstances we all face are placing tremendous demands on law enforcement personnel. Among …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel, James R. Touchstone, Jones & Mayer In January 2020, the California Fourth District Court of Appeals in City of Huntington Beach v. Becerra[1] held that …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel, James R. Touchstone, Jones & Mayer The California Second District Court of Appeal, in Amezcua v. L.A. Cnty. Civil Serv. Comm’n,[1] held that there was …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel, James R. Touchstone, Jones & Mayer In January 2020 in the case of Becerra v. Superior Court[1], the California First District Court of Appeal held …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel, James R. Touchstone, Jones & Mayer The California Fourth District Court of Appeal held, in Smith v. LoanMe, Inc.,[1] that a plaintiff failed to state …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel, James R. Touchstone, Jones & Mayer In the case of People v. Guzman,[1] the Supreme Court of California found that a surreptitious recording was properly …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel, Gregory P. Palmer and Veronica R. Donovan, Jones & Mayer On October 8, 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom approved Assembly Bill 1600 (“AB 1600”) to amend …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel, James R. Touchstone, Jones & Mayer The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held in Bahra v. Cnty. of San Bernardino[1] that a state administrative agency’s …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel, James R. Touchstone, Jones & Mayer In the case entitled Crawford v. City of Bakersfield,[1] the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a district court’s …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel, James R. Touchstone, Jones & Mayer In the case of Martinez v. City of Clovis,[1] the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals determined that two police …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel, James R. Touchstone, Jones & Mayer In October 2018, then Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 978 (SB 978) into law. Effective January 1, 2020, …
Read More »Provided by CPOA Legal Counsel, James R. Touchstone, Jones & Mayer On November 19, 2019, the United States District Court for the Southern District of California in the case of …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On November 25, 2019 in the case of United States v. People v. Lopez,[1] the California Supreme Court concluded that the desire to obtain …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On November 15, 2019, in the case of United States v. Ped,[1] the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals determined that a District Court did …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On October 18, 2019, in the case of In re Jeremiah S.,[1] the California First District Court of Appeal determined that an officer who …
Read More »Courtesy of James R. Touchstone, Esq. On October 31, 2019 in the case of City of Los Angeles v. Barr,[1] the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a District Court …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
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