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FireFighters Procedural Bill of Rights, two death penalty opinions filing Monday

August 21, 2015

On Monday morning, the Supreme Court will file opinions in two cases argued on the late-May calendar — the last opinions for cases from that calendar — and in one case argued on the June calendar.

In Poole v. Orange County Fire Authority, the court will decide whether a daily log about firefighters, which was maintained by a supervisor and used by the supervisor to prepare annual performance evaluations, qualified under the Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights Act (Gov. Code, § 3250 et seq.) as a personnel file and/or as a file used for personnel purposes.

People v. Seumanu is an automatic appeal from a December 2000 judgment of death.

People v. Williams is an automatic appeal from an August 1998 judgment of death.

The three opinions can be viewed Monday starting at 10:00 a.m.

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