Cheryl Miller
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Sacramento, CA, United States
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San Francisco reaches $5.3M settlement with DoorDash over courier benefits
The settlement resolves allegations that DoorDash failed to provide minimum health care coverage and sick leave to its workers. → Read More
Judicial Council Adopts Emergency COVID-19 Rules on Civil Deadlines, Bail
The emergency regulations temporarily restrict eviction proceedings set a reduced bail schedule encourage remote appearances for hearings and toll deadlines in civil matters. → Read More
How COVID-19 Is Impacting California Courts: Roundup of Services
State courts across California are implementing a variety of measures to curtail public activity in many instances, and in others to shut down completely. The California Supreme Court suspended in-person oral arguments until deemed prudent to resume normal measures. Here's a look at how courts across the state are grappling with the threat of the novel coronavirus as of Friday afternoon. → Read More
Governor Gives California Chief Justice 'Unprecedented' Authority To Address Pandemic
Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order Friday freeing Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye of statutory restrictions on her authority to issue statewide court orders addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. → Read More
How COVID-19 Is Impacting California Courts: Roundup of Services
State courts across California are implementing a variety of measures to curtail public activity in many instances and in others to shut down completely. The California Supreme Court suspended in-person oral arguments until deemed prudent to resume normal measures. Here's a look at how courts across the state are grappling with the threat of the novel coronavirus as of Monday afternoon. → Read More
How COVID-19 Is Impacting California Courts: Roundup of Services
State courts across California are implementing a variety of measures to curtail public activity in many instances and in others to shut down completely. The California Supreme Court suspended in-person oral arguments until deemed prudent to resume normal measures. Here's a look at how courts across the state are grappling with the threat of the novel coronavirus as of Monday afternoon. → Read More
California Judges and Lawyers Praise Statewide Suspension of Trials Amid Pandemic
Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye faced a tough call in a rare scenario that required balancing competing interests. → Read More
Meet the Lawyers Guiding California's Coronavirus Pandemic Response
Accustomed to working behind the scenes their efforts are now surfacing publicly in emergency declarations letters to the president and even leases for hospital space. → Read More
Lawyers Press California Judiciary for Uniform Operating Standards Amid Pandemic
Meanwhile, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye on Sunday said she is canceling Tuesday's Judicial Council meeting so that members—which include judges, commissioners and executive officers—can focus on work in their courts. → Read More
Mistrial Declared in Merced Murder Case Amid COVID-19 Exposure Fears
Merced County Superior Court Judge Carole Ash declared a mistrial and advised everyone in the courtroom to talk to the public health department or a doctor. The court's executive officer released a statement saying the courtroom will be disinfected. → Read More
How COVID-19 Is Impacting California Courts: Roundup of Services
The California Supreme Court on Monday suspended in-person oral arguments until deemed prudent to resume normal measures. Here's a look at how courts across the state are confronting the coronavirus threat. → Read More
How COVID-19 Is Impacting California Courts: Roundup of Services
The California Supreme Court on Monday suspended in-person oral arguments until deemed prudent to resume normal measures. Here's a look at how courts across the state are confronting the coronavirus threat. → Read More
Closures and Continuity: California's Courthouses Face Coronavirus Threat
Contra Costa County Superior Court leaders announced that its courthouses will close for a 12-day hiatus starting Monday. At the Sacramento County Superior Court however it appeared business as usual on Friday. → Read More
Parsing Prop 65: Compliance Hurdles, Liability and More
What are the biggest potential pitfalls for companies under these new rules? How are lawyers advising clients? We caught up with Alston & Bird's Maureen Gorsen former director of California's Department of Toxic Substances Control for her perspective. → Read More
This New Bill Would Make Pro Bono Mandatory—Or Else Pay Up
Assemblyman Adam Gray D-Merced has introduced legislation that would require most active lawyers in the state to provide at least 25 hours of free legal services each year. Attorneys could opt out of the requirement—if they pay $500 to the state bar's legal aid program. → Read More
Leave Jeff Sessions Out of Tax Audit, Feds Tell Colorado Marijuana Dispensary
The U.S. attorney general's cancellation of the Cole memo does not mean that petitioners now face an elevated danger of self-incrimination by cooperating with the IRS audits a Justice Department tax lawyer tells a Colorado judge. → Read More
Feds Ask for Sanctions in Foreign Data Fight With Google
Strategic tools and news that general counsel need to better manage their legal departments and fully understand the business risks companies face today. → Read More
State Bar Leaves Reducing Exam Score for Supreme Court to Resolve
California state bar trustees on Wednesday punted the fate of the bar exam pass score to the California Supreme Court, offering the justices a range of choic... → Read More
Federal Demand for Medical Marijuana Data in California Raises Privacy Alarms
A federal official with an anti-drug agency has asked California for demographic data about the 86,723 patients who have obtained medical marijuana user card... → Read More
Eric Holder's Advice to Jeff Sessions: Don't Force Career Staff to 'Defend the Indefensible'
From one U.S. attorney general to another, Eric Holder Jr. recently offered Jeff Sessions some leadership advice. Holder's observations were not solicited. '... → Read More