Source: http://www.zappialawfirm.com/accomplishments/
Timestamp: 2019-04-19 06:19:49+00:00

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County of Riverside v. California Public Employment Relations Board – In a matter of statewide concern, on September 13, 2013, our firm successfully secured a Writ of Mandate declaring that PERB erroneously interpreted AB 646, the mandatory post-impasse fact finding statutes. (Riverside County Superior Court Case No. RIC 1305661.) We are currently defending that judgment up to the California Supreme Court.
Confidential Personnel Hearing – In January 2012, our firm prevailed for our public entity/police department client when a civil service commission sustained the termination of a police officer for numerous acts of neglect of duty, including failing to warn other officers of a nearby fleeing suspect, interfering with a DA prosecution because of a personal interest in the female suspect, and soliciting prostitutes.
Fauth v. County of Riverside (2015) – In the final conclusion to the Court of Appeal’s published decision in Fauth I [RSA v. County of Riverside (2009) 173 Cal.App.4th 1410], which had ordered the County to provide both a disability retirement hearing and a termination appeal to an unfit peace offer whose disability disqualified her from carrying a weapon, after eight years of intense litigation and two formal appeals, ZLF successfully defensed the County’s termination of the officer. On this second appeal, the Court ruled that the County properly terminated plaintiff for failing to meet the minimum requirements of her job as a peace officer, and fully and finally affirmed this termination despite the procedural complications caused by her involuntary disability retirement.
Rodgers v. County of Riverside (2015) – In another case that lasted eight vigorously litigated years, ZLF obtained a reversal of the trial court’s Writ ruling that had required the County to re-evaluate the termination of an incompetent and dishonest probation officer based on her performance alone (disregarding dishonesty and criminal conviction, which had been excluded under the evidentiary provisions of the Peace Officers Bill of Rights). ZLF succeeded in reversing this Writ on appeal, and reinstating the officer’s termination with no backpay. In addition, ZLF’s client was awarded costs on appeal.
Ingham v. Club One, Inc. (2013) – ZLF obtained an immediate emergency stay of all lower court proceedings to allow the California Court of Appeal to hear our Petition for Writ of Mandate to reverse the Superior Court’s grant of summary adjudication against our client. Courts of Appeal grant emergency stays in 1 out of 1,000 requests.
SEIU, v. City of Santa Barbara (1997) – 57 Cal.App.4th 654 – Early in his career, Mr. Zappia obtained a published opinion from the California Court of Appeal, ruling that the City was warranted in undertaking a second election for an agency shop.

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