Once again we have a stacked list of runners-up and shout-outs for Litigator of the Week, so let’s get moving.
A team at Browne George Ross O’Brien Annaguey & Ellis including Dennis Ellis, Katherine Murray, and Richard Schwartz landed runner-up honors for their work on a high profile suit brought on behalf of California Restaurant Association challenging Los Angeles County’s outdoor dining ban. The team convinced L.A. Superior Court Judge James Chalfant to bar the county from extending the ban unless and until it conducts “an appropriate risk-benefit analysis.” The judge found that the county health department’s restaurant closure order was “an abuse of the Department’s emergency powers, is not grounded in science, evidence, or logic, and should be adjudicated to be unenforceable as a matter of law.”
