The question: How much accrued vacation time can retiring public employees cash out at the end of their careers in ways that boost their pensions? The California Supreme Court’s answer: Under Brown’s law, employees can count toward their pension formula whatever amount of vacation their contract allows them to cash out in a single calendar year. 

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the [U.S.] Supreme Court’s most influential member prior to his retirement, has watched quietly for eight years as a new conservative majority took charge.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision interpreting California law, yesterday reversed an order suppressing evidence found in a trailer and pickup truck, saying that officers reasonably believed that the vehicles belonged to, or were under the control of, a man who was on parole, a condition of which was submitting to warrantless searches of his residence or property under his control.

Div. Two of the First District Court of Appeal has rejected a party’s assertion that his insurance company should be estopped from enforcing a one-year statute of limitations, that starts to run when an insurer makes an unequivocal denial of a claim, based on ongoing communications inviting the insured to submit “any additional information.”