Pertel recently represented Trabuco Canyon tenants in a high-profile secondhand smoke case featured in various Southern California news sources. Pertel is quoted in the following article for the Orange County Register: The attorney for the tenants, Joseph Pertel, said they did nothing wrong. “I think there”s a strong argument that
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Pertel featured in Orange County secondhand smoke case
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Representation of ex-gang member leads to unprecedented removal from injunction
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Pertel’s representation of a former gang member in 2008 resulted in the first-ever release from court injunctions in the history Los Angeles. This marked a major step in the reformation of legislative programs such as gang injunctions, aimed at combating crime yet often overlooking gang members” City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo gave this
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Pertel: Court would have opened the door into the merits of any marital relationship
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Pertel’s representation of Susan Jurcoane in 2001 helped uphold marital privilege in her refusal to testify against her husband for his accused killings decades earlier in 1984: Accepting Susan Jurcoane’s legal arguments, the court said that state law is clear that only the Legislature can create exceptions. Susan Jurcoane’s lawyer,
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Civil rights: Pertel lead counsel in CDC lawsuit
In 1999 Pertel served as lead counsel in an explosive civil rights suit against the California Department of Corrections, in which prisoners claimed unlawful punishment in retaliation for exposing a prison labor program as an illegal sweatshop operation: “These inmates were slots online punished for no other online casinos reason
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