Environmental & Energy
Jun. 20, 2023
DUI, environment lawyers to be paid under new legislation
The California DUI Lawyers Association alleged nearly a decade ago that the Department of Motor Vehicles’ administrative per se hearing system “deprives plaintiffs’ clients of the procedural due process rights.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill approving more than $6.7 million to end two recent court cases, one filed by lawyers for drunken driving defendants.
Under SB 383, nearly $3.1 million more will go to a case brought by the California DUI Lawyers Association.
Another $3.7 million will go toward claims by the Wetlands Preservation Foundation that the state was mismanaging a vast island in the San Joaquin Delta and e...
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