Vol. 14 No. 17 – Administrative Hearings & Creating the Record
CLIENT ALERT MEMORANDUM December 7, 1999 To: All Police Chiefs and Sheriffs From: Paul R. Coble Administrative Hearings & Creating the Record You have an administrative adjudicatory hearing . . . disciplinary, permit revocation, land use, etc. . . . where testimony and evidence are taken. The appellant decides to challenge the decision resulting from […]
Vol. 14 No. 16- Follow-Up to Vol. 14 No. 14 Client Alert dated November 17, 1999
CLIENT ALERT MEMORANDUM December 3, 1999 To: All Police Chiefs and Sheriffs From: Paul R. Coble Follow-Up to Vol. Fourteen No. Fourteen Client Alert dated November 17, 1999 URGENT !!! Our recent Client Alert Memorandum on the Ninth Circuit decision in California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, et al. v. City of Santa Monica, et. al. […]
Vol. 14 No. 15 – Brady v. Maryland – Attorney General’s Memo of November 2, 1999
CLIENT ALERT MEMORANDUM November 24, 1999 To: All Police Chiefs and Sheriffs From: Martin J. Mayer “Brady v. Maryland” — Attorney General’s Memo of November 2, 1999 The California Attorney General recently issued a memo to all California District Attorneys stating that prosecutors do not have a duty to learn of exculpatory information which might […]
Vol. 14 No. 14- Ninth Circuit Prohibition of Interrogations “Outside” Miranda
CLIENT ALERT MEMORANDUM November 17, 1999 To: All Police Chiefs and Sheriffs From: Paul R. Coble NINTH CIRCUIT PROHIBITION OF INTERROGATIONS “OUTSIDE” MIRANDA On November 8, 1999, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, acting in the case of California Attorneys For Criminal Justice, et al. vs. City of Santa Monica, et […]
Vol. 14 No. 13 Check Us Out!! Mayer & Coble Is On The WEB With Even More Information!
CLIENT ALERT MEMORANDUM October 28, 1999 To: All Police Chiefs, Sheriffs, City Attorneys and County Counsels From: Martin J. Mayer We have just finalized including on our website our most recent Client Alerts and Case Updates. We have included all of the 1999 Client Alerts and the 1999 Case Updates and, as new issues are […]
Vol. 15 No. 3- Re: Further Amendments To Penal Code 832.5 – Removal of Certain Citizen Complaints
CLIENT ALERT MEMORANDUM March 15, 2000 To: All Police Chiefs and Sheriffs From: Paul R. Coble FURTHER AMENDMENTS TO PENAL CODE ‘832.5 – REMOVAL OF CERTAIN CITIZEN COMPLAINTS In 1997 we issued a Client Alert Memo regarding the then current amendments to Penal Code ‘832.5(c), which dealt with the removal, from an officer’s primary personnel […]
Vol. 15 No. 4- Re: Searches Based On Anonymous Tips
CLIENT ALERT MEMORANDUM April 14, 2000 To: All Police Chiefs and Sheriffs From: J. Scott Tiedemann SEARCHES BASED ON ANONYMOUS TIPS We write to draw your attention to a recent decision of the United States Supreme Court which may impact the manner in which your agency responds to anonymous tips of criminal activity. In Florida […]
Vol. 15 No. 5- Re: Major Change Regarding FLSA and CTO
CLIENT ALERT MEMORANDUM May 9, 2000To: All Police Chiefs and Sheriffs From: Martin J. Mayer MAJOR CHANGE REGARDING FLSA and CTO On May 1, 2000 the Supreme Court of the United States issued an opinion in the case of Christensen v. Harris County, 2000 WL 504578 (Tex.), 2000 DAR 4497, substantially impacting the issue of […]
Vol. 16 No. 8- Counseling Memo Can Trigger Full Blown Hearing
CLIENT ALERT MEMORANDUM September 20, 2001 To: All Police Chiefs and Sheriffs From: Martin J. Mayer COUNSELING MEMO CAN TRIGGER FULL BLOWN HEARING Recently the California Court of Appeal, Second District, ruled in the case of Otto v. Los Angeles Unified School District, 89 Cal.App. 4th 985, that a written memorandum which documents a counseling […]
Vol. 16 No. 4- Critical Incident Protocol
CLIENT ALERT MEMORANDUM May 15, 2001 To: All Police Chiefs and Sheriffs From: Martin J. Mayer CRITICAL INCIDENT PROTOCOL Recently quite a few of our clients have forwarded copies of letters they received from a PORAC law firm in northern California. The thrust of the letter is that the firm has adopted what appears to […]