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The U.S. Supreme Court granted a request by OC sheriff officials to block a federal judge’s order requiring physical distancing and other pandemic safety measures at the OC jails
The precedent – cited often in recent court decisions – goes back over a century, to a 1905 case where the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a state’s power to mandate vaccinations during an epidemic.
The nation’s highest court decided April 16 it would not review the case, rejecting a petition by Westminster to appeal the 2014 decision by a federal court jury that awarded $3.4 million in damages plus attorney fees to Westminster Police Department officers Jose Flores, Ryan Reyes and Brian Perez.
The excessive force federal lawsuit by the mother of Manuel Diaz, who was killed by Anaheim police in 2012, will get a retrial after the U.S. Supreme Court Monday upheld a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling granting the retrial, according to ABC 7 News.
About 80 people came together Wednesday to march throughout downtown Santa Ana in a demonstration of their anger with the Supreme Court’s vote last week that blocked President Obama’s immigration reform.
A mother says that if she’d had a better understanding of her son’s juvenile justice proceedings, the information would have guided her decisions in court in the spring of 2012 when he was found delinquent for carrying a weapon – a pocket knife – on school grounds.
Irvine officials say they’re “troubled” by the expansion plans. County supervisors call it a crucial move to house a rising inmate population.
Supervisor John Moorlach is among those urging Gov. Jerry Brown to sign a bill allowing state money to be used in implementing the mental health law.
In exchange for allowing more inmates at the Theo Lacy jail, the city of Orange will receive about $340,000 more, paid from the county’s share of federal funds.
Records show that attorneys for Garden Grove Unified School District may have behaved unethically in effort to sway appellate court.