Government Liability Update
Pollak, Vida & Fisher's "Weblawg" of Important Developments in California Public Entity Tort Liability. Edited by Daniel P. Barer, Partner, Pollak, Vida & Fisher
Recent Posts
- Prison Litigation Reform Act Limits Awards of Attorney Fees to 150% of Compensatory Damages Awarded against Defendant
- Medical Marijuana Users Cannot Challenge Closure of Dispensaries Through Title II of the ADA
- Federal Special Education Statutes Create Neither a Cause of Action for Nominal Damages for Failure to Cooperate with Discovery, Nor a Damages Cause of Action against a Magnet School for Reasonable Admission Requirements
- Public Official Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity for Allegedly Retaliating against Employee for Employee's Subpoenaed Deposition Testimony in Civil Rights Lawsuit
- Neither Driver's Drinking Nor Plaintiff's Diagonal Parking in Roadside Area Superseded Alleged Dangerous Design of Public Property
- School District's Supervising Managers May Be Held Liable for Retaliation under Whistleblower Statute, But Managing Employees May Not Seek Punitive Damages under Statute
- County Hospital Immune from Liability for One Patient's Sexual Assault upon Another
- Private Attorneys Retained by Local Government to Do Its Work Are Entitled to Protections of Qualified Immuni
- If Mobile Home Park Is Making Fair Rate of Return, It Has No Constitutional Right to Raise Rents to Market Rates
- School Districts May Be Held Vicariously Liable for Administrators' and Supervisors' Negligent Hiring or Retention Recommendations Concerning Employees Who Intentionally Injure Students
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