by pddg_admin | Aug 12, 2015 | Legal Developments and News
School districts are often confused about the proper procedures for agendizing a closed session meeting with legal counsel on matters related to pending, potential, or threatened litigation. In a recent decision, the Court of Appeal rejected a hyper-technical reading...
by pddg_admin | Aug 5, 2015 | Legal Developments and News
Last Friday, a California Court of Appeal held that inadvertent disclosure of privileged records by a school district responding to a California Public Records Act (CPRA) request did not waive the confidentiality of those records. (Newark Unified School District v....
by pddg_admin | Jul 15, 2015 | Legal Developments and News
Continuing its recent trend of weighing in on questions surrounding the California Public Records Act (CPRA), last week the California Supreme Court decided to hear a case involving the need for public agencies to disclose billing invoices provided by outside...
by pddg_admin | Jul 2, 2015 | Legal Developments and News
In a recent decision, Westchester Secondary Charter School v. Los Angeles Unified School District(June 19, 2015, B261234) ___ Cal.App.4th ___ [14 C.D.O.S. 6555], the Court of Appeal recognized that Proposition 39 is not intended to put charter schools in a privileged...
by pddg_admin | Jul 1, 2015 | Legal Developments and News
DWK joins Lozano Smith in mourning the loss of a great friend, competitor and colleague, Greg Wedner who lost his battle with cancer on June 30, 2015. Greg was the former managing partner at Lozano Smith, and became known to many lawyers at DWK for his warmth,...
