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28 Aug 2016, 9:26 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
In other words, if the state of the case law was fuzzy at the time, the defendants win the case since they cannot be expected to know the state of the law the way a law professor or some other legal expert would. [read post]
29 Sep 2015, 4:00 am by The Public Employment Law Press
A political subdivision of the State may provide for the defense and indemnification of its officers and employees sued in state or federal court involving the performance of official duties Bonilla v Town of Hempstead, 2015 NY Slip Op 06916, Appellate Division, Second DepartmentFormer Hempstead Town Clerk Mark A. [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 4:34 pm by Scott W Lawrence
It remains to be seen if governments and public defenders offices will abide by these new guidelines. [read post]
22 Apr 2024, 5:00 am by Bernard Bell
The first, the Sixth Circuit’s “authority or duty” test, required plaintiffs to prove “state action” by establishing that either (1) the “text of state law requires an officeholder to maintain a social-media account,” (2) the defendant official “use[s] … state resources” or “government staff” to run the account, or (3) the “accoun[t] belong[s] to an office, rather than an… [read post]
30 Sep 2009, 8:36 am by Randall Hodgkinson
My old public defender colleague Tim Frieden (we started within a couple weeks of each other at the PD office), won an acquittal in State v. [read post]
20 Jun 2010, 11:52 am
Defending and indemnifying employeesZimmer v Town of Brookhaven, 247 A.D.2d 109When a public employee is sued in connection with his or her performance of, or his or her failure to perform, official duties, usually he or she is entitled to look to his or her employer to provided him or her with representation in the proceeding. [read post]
5 Sep 2011, 10:55 pm by Administrator
In March, the federal courts updated the names of the Perry defendants to reflect California’s newly-elected political officials, who took office on January 3. [read post]