The Cal/OSHA Appeals Board has denied a motion from the Division of Occupational Safety and Health for a continuance to limit an expedited hearing scheduled for mid-April. The case concerns citations issued to the Yuba County Sheriff’s Department (as well as the Marysville Police Department) after an officer was killed during a drug trafficking disruption …
The California Court of Appeal recently granted a motion by attorneys representing Granite Construction that an opinion recently issued by the Third Appellate District be certified for publication. The Finch, Thornton, Baird law firm based in San Diego filed the request for publication. The firm represents the McCarthy Building and coordinated the move with the …
The Cal/OSHA Appeals Board did not violate the Administrative Procedure Act in invoking the state Government Code when it instituted mandatory teleconferenced appeals hearings during the COVID emergency, so ruled a Sacramento County Superior Court. The ruling denies an injunction against the Board on video hearings and decisively backs the semi-judicial body’s authority to act. …
The California Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a wrongful-death claim against a general contractor on whose project a subcontractor employee died in 2016. The ruling was made under the state’s Privette doctrine, which shields general contractors, in this case, Tyler Development Corp., from lawsuits when subcontractor employees sue for fatalities …