Litigation
May 27, 2016
Lawyer seeks to depose his dinner host
A dinner conversation between Los Angeles County's head of health services and a director at Public Counsel boiled over this week into requests that the pro bono attorney be disqualified from a suit on mental health treatment in county jails.




Daily Journal Staff Writer
A dinner conversation between Los Angeles County's head of health services and a director at nonprofit law firm Public Counsel boiled over this week into requests that the pro bono attorney be disqualified from a suit on mental health treatment in county jails because he communicated with an involved official ex parte without authorization.
U.S. Magistrate Judge John E. McDermott already r...
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