The attorney, Steve Filarsky of Filarsky & Watts in Ojai, Calif., is asking the Supreme Court to review that ruling and to decide whether qualified immunity extends to the hundreds, if not thousands, of private attorneys hired by local governments to provide specific services.
“Going forward, you’d be crazy to do what my client does,” said Filarsky’s counsel, Jon Tisdale, a partner at Los Angeles’ Gilbert, Kelly, Crowley & Jennett. “Municipalities either are not going to find lawyers willing to do this or they’re going to be so expensive to self-insure and will require a municipality to indemnify them and hold them harmless if sued.
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