Sacramento, CA
Medical malpractice Lawyer at Sacramento, CA
Practice Areas: Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury ... +7 more
OUTCOME: Confidential Settlement
Action against defendants Turbomeca, S.A., a French corporation, La Société Anonyme Turbomeca Francé, a French corporation, Turbomeca USA, a Texas corporation, and Turbomeca Engine Corporation, a Texas ... corporation alleging defectively designed and manufactured a helicopter engine component led to a helicopter crash that killed two passengers and seriously injured a third.
OUTCOME:
Superior Court ruled city cannot reject labor contract by declaring a fiscal emergency.
OUTCOME: $1.75 million settlement.
An action brought under state wage and labor laws on behalf of 203 current and former Wackenhut Corporation security officers for overtime, and missed meal periods and rest breaks.
OUTCOME: Settled for approximately $625,000.00.
A wage and hour case brought pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) involving approximately 353 San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs.
OUTCOME:
Court held reassignment of a peace officer to a lower-paying position based on his alleged deficient performance was per se disciplinary, or punitive in nature, and officer was therefore entitled to b ... e accorded the opportunity for an administrative appeal under Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act.
OUTCOME:
Court ruled an amended complaint related back to the date the original complaint was filed and, therefore, escaped the bar of the statute of limitations.
OUTCOME:
Filed Amicus brief in support of ultimate holding that: (1) statutory five-year limitation upon court-ordered disclosure of complaints of police officer misconduct did not, on its face, violate due pro ... cess or supremacy clause; (2) statutory limitation was not an absolute bar to disclosure, as Pitchess process operated in parallel with Brady; and (3) applying five-year limitation period to withhold ten-year-old complaint against arresting officer for failure to report his partner's use of mace fell short of Brady's materiality standard for establishing due process violation.