Sheriff’s deputies who barged into a home by the back door, without a warrant, did not violate the Fourth Amendment rights of the owner of the abode, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday, because the officers were in “hot pursuit” of a man who had been spotted running a stop sign, a felony under California law.

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Effect cannot be given a clause in an employee handbook unequivocally requiring arbitration of any dispute at the option of either party, Div. Five of this district’s Court of Appeal has held. 

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