In 2017, a police officer with the City of Huntington Beach (“Officer Esparza”) saw a man standing on a sidewalk who caught his attention (“Mr. Tabares”). Officer Esparza noticed Mr. Tabares wore a sweater on a warm day, walked abnormally, made flinching movements with his hands, and looked in his direction several times. A former
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Discipline for Officer-Provoked Force Incidents after County of Los Angeles v. Mendez
By Paul D. Knothe & Guest Author on
Posted in Public Safety Issues
This post was authored by Paul Knothe and Kaylee Feick
On May 30, 2017, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in County of Los Angeles v. Mendez. LCW attorneys, J. Scott Tiedemann and Leighton Henderson, submitted an amicus curiae brief to the United States Supreme Court in the case on behalf of…
What Does The Supreme Court’s Ruling In US v. Jones Mean For GPS Tracking By Employers?
By Elizabeth Arce on
Last summer we reported that an employer may under California law use GPS devices to track employer owned or leased vehicles. We recently revisited this issue in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in United States v. Jones. Although Jones does address the use of GPS devices to track vehicles, the holding…