Public Entities
CPW attorneys represent public entities including school districts and transportation agencies in trials, writs and appeals of a wide variety of cases that span many of our other practice areas, including employment, professional liability, civil rights, real estate and construction. We have handled labor negotiations and disputes at all levels of the collective bargaining system. Lawyers at CPW have prosecuted and defended claims on behalf of public entities in cases involving real estate and construction matters. We also have prosecuted professional liability claims on behalf of public entities.
Public entities also turn to CPW to handle challenges to their activities brought under the state and federal constitutions and cases involving complex statutory issues. These cases require attorneys with trial experience who are sensitive to the public and political implications of their work and who can work closely with their in-house colleagues. We enjoy working with the governing boards of these entities to resolve lawsuits in a manner that promotes fairness, accountability and the public interest.
Representative Cases
- Represented a school district in litigation over the statutory and constitutional propriety of a parcel tax.
- Defended a school district from constitutional and other claims brought by the parents of a fifth grader whose teacher and classmates had discussed a television program with a lesbian theme.
- Defended a transportation agency from discrimination and retaliation claims brought by a bus mechanic.
- Represented a school district in connection with its participation in a joint powers agreement.
- Handled judicial review of an arbitration award that reinstated a public employee who had been convicted of maintaining a home methamphetamine lab.
- Prosecuted claims for a school district against a municipal utility district for overcharging on electrical rates.
- Prosecuted a professional liability claim on behalf of a public university against its former patent lawyers.
- Represented a school district in connection with the breach of a lease of public property by a municipality.
ATTORNEYS
Raquel A. Lacayo-Valle
David Nied
Mark A. White
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