OC judge says no more inmates need to be released for reducing jail population due to COVID-19
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SANTA ANA, Calif. - A judge who previously ordered that Orange County s jail population be cut in half to better comply with social distancing to help contain the spread of COVID-19 said Tuesday he is satisfied with what Sheriff Don Barnes has done so far and that it is not necessary to release any inmates at this time. The situation today is that I cannot conclude that the sheriff has not substantially complied with both the letter and intent of the Dec. 11 order to halve the jail population, Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter Wilson said.
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A federal judge defending the court’s pandemic-related prohibition on jury trials said her stateside counterparts in Orange County Superior Court aren’t tracking jurors after trials end, so it’s impossible to know how many people have been infected through them.
“How do you know it wasn’t spread throughout the community because of the trial? How do you know someone’s grandmother wasn’t hospitalized because she came into contact with the juror?” said U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton.
Speaking to attorneys during a recent Zoom hearing, Staton said the last few months of increasing coronavirus infections in Orange County means “someone is doing something wrong, not right” and justifies the decision to indefinitely halt jury trials.
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The national law firm of Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman has filed a Gardasil lawsuit against Merck alleging the multinational pharmaceutical corporation misled regulators and the public about the safety of its human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. Plaintiff Kayla Carrillo, 20, alleges Gardasil caused her to develop postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), seizure disorder, and infertility, among many other serious health issues. Â
Attorneys Bijan Esfandiari, Nicole K. H. Maldonado, Michael L. Baum, Monique Alarcon, and co-counsel Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. filed the latest Gardasil lawsuit in Orange County Superior Court on behalf of the plaintiff. The def