The lawsuit was filed by Deshanae L. Brown, who alleges she was subjected to discrimination based on her race, sex, and disability, citing violations of federal and state laws including Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Sheryl Davis is accused of steering millions of dollars to Collective Impact, a San Francisco-based nonprofit she previously ran as executive director, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday by the San Francisco District Attorney's Office.
The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office must comply with subpoenas issued by the county's civilian oversight board as part of a whistleblower investigation into alleged misconduct, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Dena Coggins in Sacramento gave the government seven days to return Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez, 42, and restore her protections under the Obama-era program Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, 'as if her Feb. 19, 2026 removal never occurred.'
I was very angry with the Legislature, with Gov. Newsom for not having the foresight to see basic assumptions that people are going to want treatment (is) not reality. The biggest problem is there is no teeth in CARE Court. It's not everyone's right to die on the street, and that's very well what might happen to my son.
In the lawsuit, Valencia resident Parker Seitz alleged that off-duty deputies Randy Austin and Nicholas Hernandez, along with a third man attacked him outside a bar called the Break Room in late November 2024. Seitz said the men had assaulted him, and that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and deputies had violated his civil rights, inflicted emotional stress, defamed him and conspired to keep the matter quiet.
Boys and girls testified that O'Connor would pressure them to sneak out of their own houses when their parents were asleep, and ply them with copious amounts of alcohol, assigning them bedrooms where they could hookup. Prosecutors described this as 'grooming,' and suggested that O'Connor got some sort of 'sexual gratification' in the process.
The Younger abstention doctrine provides that federal courts are not to interfere with pending state criminal proceedings. The doctrine is rarely invoked in regulatory disputes, but it can block federal courts from intervening when state criminal prosecutions are already underway. If the judge applies it here, the federal case could effectively stall while the state case proceeds.
Over the last 40 years, he has represented over a thousand victims of police brutality and misconduct. His most notable cases include the 1991 Rodney King against LAPD, 2009 Oscar Grant against the Oakland BART Police, and 2015 Mario Woods against SFPD.