In an excellent and timely piece on the militarization of our nation’s police – “Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”: The new warrior cop is out of control – Salon.com’s and HuffingtonPost.com’s Radley Balko (@radleybalko) highlight’s another alarming trend in the use of the police: But the mission creep Read more…
The most comprehensive overhaul of state government since 1968 became official on July 1. The Governor’s plan, which was implemented and transitioned to over the past year, cut the number of state agencies from 12 to 10 and eliminated and consolidated dozens of departments and entities. As a result, five existing state Read more…
Justin D. Hein, Managing Attorney of the Sacramento Office of Simas & Associates, Ltd., is participating in the Sacramento Executive “Lock-Up” of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) on July 17, 2013. As a participant, Justin has been set with a “bail” of $3,200.00 – an amount he is to try Read more…
The longstanding purpose of license discipline laws is to protect the public from incompetent practitioners. Although the standards differ somewhat from agency to agency, almost every licensing agency has laws that allow it to take disciplinary action against a licensee when their conduct falls below what is expected of the Read more…
On July 1, 2013, the Department of Real Estate (DRE) is no more. No, the State of California is not abolishing the agency. Rather, they are shifting under the Department of Consumer Affairs and becoming the Bureau of Real Estate (BRE). As a result, the BRE is recommending that California real Read more…
On June 4, 2013, under threat from the state legislature, the Medical Board of California (“MBC”) met to embark on a search for new leadership and began to earnestly consider a host of proposals aimed at combating reckless prescribing of physicians. The state legislature intends to abolish the MBC at Read more…
After a multi-million dollar contract for data storage for the State of California was awarded to our client, Kovarus, three bid protests came in from NetAPP, NWN Corporation, and Hewlett-Packard Company. In the end, the Administrative Law Judge agreed with our arguments, and awarded the contract to Kovarus.
On June 12, 2013, Steven L. Simas, founder and owner of Simas & Associates, Ltd., California’s leading administrative and health care law firm, presented “The Intersection of Criminal and Administrative Law” to the San Luis Obispo County Bar Association, Criminal Law Section. The presentation provided a general overview of administrative Read more…
Steven L. Simas, founder and owner of Simas & Associates, Ltd., was interviewed for and quoted within an article recently published by Law360, a LexisNexis Company. The article, entitled “Doctors’ Hospital Jobs Imperiled by California Hight Court Ruling“, was written by Jeff Overley and published on June 12, 2013. The Read more…
A buy-sell agreement is an agreement between the owners of a business to purchase and sell interests of the business at a pre-determined price upon the occurrence of anticipated or potential future events. These triggering events generally include death, disability, bankruptcy, divorce, retirement, an offer to purchase, and termination of Read more…