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Opinions filing tomorrow about inadvertent disclosure of privileged documents, multiple criminal complaints

March 16, 2016

Tomorrow morning, the Supreme Court will file opinions in two cases argued on the January calendar.

In Ardon v. City of Los Angeles, the court will address these questions:  (1) Does inadvertent disclosure of attorney work product and privileged documents in response to a Public Records Act request waive those privileges and protections?  (2) Should the attorney who received the documents be disqualified because she examined them and refused to return them?

People v. Juarez raises the issue whether Penal Code section 1387 requires dismissal of a criminal complaint if two prior complaints have been dismissed but the third complaint charges that the identical criminal act violates a different section of the Penal Code than had the two previous complaints.

Both opinions can be viewed tomorrow starting at 10:00 a.m.

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