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: Legal Pad | LAAppeals court rules state soverign immunity doesn't apply to DA contractors
By Jason Siegel
Private companies that run diversion programs administered by dozens of California district attorneys are now open to legal attack, The Recorder reported.
A 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled last week that state sovereign immunity does not extend to American Corrective Counseling Services, a private contractor hired by the Santa Clara County DA's office to go after individuals who passed bad checks.
Because ACCS is a private contractor, the Ninth Circuit should not even undertake the test it uses when various government bodies seek immunity, Judge Marsha Berzon wrote. Extending sovereign immunity to a private company would be a "category error," she wrote.
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on February 11, 2008 (boomark / email).
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