Year: 2007

Alvarez-Glasman & Colvin is pleased to announce the addition of three new Associate Attorneys to the Firm: Lisa Marie Chiappetta, David H. King and Teresa Chen. Ms. Chiapetta is an experienced and talented civil and appellate litigator, having handled a wide variety of cases at.

Under the California Constitution, counties and cities have broad authority to regulate planning and zoning.[1] However, as a recent California Court of Appeal case makes clear, such authority is not unlimited. In Neighbors in Support of Appropriate Land Use v. County of Tuolumne, the appellate.

On November 28, 2007, the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth Appellate District held that because possession of marijuana for medical purposes is legal under California’s Compassionate Use Act,[1] state courts are not pre-empted by federal law from allowing the return of medical marijuana.

On Monday, the California Supreme Court broadened the permissible use of information gleaned from a police officer’s personnel file by defense attorneys after Pitchess motion proceedings.[1] In Chambers v. Appellate Division of the Superior Court of San Diego County,[2] the court ruled unanimously that “derivative.

Alvarez-Glasman & Colvin is pleased to announce that Roger Colvin, Senior Partner and Founding Member of the Firm, has been selected as a panelist for the Los Angeles Superior Court’s Neutral Evaluation (“NE”) Program. Under the NE Program, Mr. Colvin will mediate civil litigation cases.