Appeals
March 1, 2010
Furlough Case Update/Memo
A memo was sent to the State Board today with regard to the furlough case: "On Friday, February 26, 2010 the Court of Appeal issued a decision relative to our pending furlough appeal. Contrary to the missive written by the Sac Bee on its State Worker Blog, CCPOA DID NOT lose. As you may recall, CCPOA asked for the Court to dismiss the appeal filed by the State. They did...
April 21, 2008
Court rejects appeals by 11 death row inmates
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday followed up on its ruling last week upholding the commonly used lethal injection method of execution and rejected appeals by 11 death row inmates in seven states.
The ruling cleared the way for a resumption of executions that had been halted for nearly seven months while the justices considered a constitutional challenge to the three-drug cocktail used in the executions.
The ruling means more than a dozen death row inmates likely will get early execution dates. Officials in the leading death penalty states, like Texas, Virginia and Florida, said they planned to schedule executions that previously had been on hold…
LINK - Reuters.com
March 6, 2008
Motion for Stay of Hearing
On March 6th 2008 the State sought to delay the PERB hearing on the LBFO set for April 16 and 17 in this MOTION FOR STAY OF HEARING.
The following excerpts clearly show the State's resistance to returning to the bargaining table by making the most unbelievable claims such as:
The State's fiscal crisis is not a change in circumstance that warrants renewed bargaining Because CCPOA has made no concessions and no movement to indicate that an agreement may be possible.
There exists no reasonable cause to conclude the statewide fiscal emergency constitutes a Change of circumstance breaking the current state of impasse and giving rise to a duty to bargain because there has been no concession nor any movement to indicate an agreement may be possible.
February 7, 2008
Government Contractors Denied Legal Immunity
Companies that dun consumers for bad-check fees on behalf of prosecutors can be sued for defrauding the check-writers, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday in a decision that could affect private prison operators and a host of other government contractors. In a case from Santa Clara County, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said the defense of sovereign immunity, which shields the state and federal governments from lawsuits unless they agree to be sued, doesn't apply to private contractors…
LINK - SFGate.com
August 1, 2000
Inmate Appeals Process Review California Rehabilitation Center
This report presents the results of the Office of the Inspector General's review of the CDC-602 inmate appeal process used at the California Rehabilitation Center. The review was prompted by a letter from a California Rehabilitation Center inmate dated March 13, 2000, reporting a backlog in the inmate appeal process. The Office of the Inspector General was subsequently told by staff at the California Rehabilitation Center that the backlog at the institution for processing inmate appeals was six to eight weeks. A backlog of that magnitutde would make it virtually impossible to process inmate appeals within regulatory time limits.
