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Read / Add Comments The 82-year-old mother of a Paterson firefighter who died in the line of duty 22 years ago was struck and killed by a sedan on a city street, authorities said. Mary Bitner was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center after being struck near the corner of Memorial Drive and Broadway around 3 p.m. Tuesday, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint release. A 21-year-old city resident whose 2012 To...

Appeals court allows L.A. County dining ban to remain in place until at least February Lila Seidman © (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) A state appeals court has sided with L.A. County after restaurants challenged the outdoor dining ban in court. Above, a restaurant in Woodland Hills on Dec. 2. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Los Angeles County can keep its outdoor dining ban in place until at least early February if it chooses, regardless of state rules, unde...

Print Los Angeles County can keep its outdoor dining ban in place until at least early February if it chooses, regardless of state rules, under an order issued by the California 2nd District Court of Appeal. A three-judge panel for the appeals court paused a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge’s ruling that would have required county public health officials to conduct a risk-benefit analysis of the temporary ban enacted in late November in order for it to remain in effect. A hearing on t...

A New Federal Court Case Could Bring Outdoor Dining Back to California The legal team that (briefly) overturned LA County’s ban on outdoor dining this month is back, and now they’re going after California Gov. Newsom Share this story Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images As expected, the fight over outdoor dining in Southern California is heating up. Fresh off a tentative win in Los Angeles County Superior Court, attorney and restaurant owner Mark Geragos is now taking his fight d...

By City News Service US-VIRUS-HEALTH The three-justice panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeal issued its ruling Friday, directing Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant to show during a Feb. 10 hearing before the appellate court why his Dec. 15 order should not be vacated. “The preliminary injunction order is stayed until further order of this court, the appellate panel wrote. In his ruling, Chalfant found that the county “failed to perform the required risk-benefit analysis...

By City News Service US-VIRUS-HEALTH The three-justice panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeal issued its ruling Friday, directing Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant to show during a Feb. 10 hearing before the appellate court why his Dec. 15 order should not be vacated. “The preliminary injunction order is stayed until further order of this court, the appellate panel wrote. In his ruling, Chalfant found that the county “failed to perform the required risk-benefit analysis...

L.A. County appeals court’s order barring renewal of outdoor dining ban [Los Angeles Times] Los Angeles County on Thursday appealed a judge’s decision that barred an extension of its temporary ban on outdoor dining, calling the ruling “plainly erroneous and directly contrary to governing law.” L.A. County Superior Court Judge James Chalfant ruled last week that the county should not be allowed to continue the ban indefinitely and would need to provide a risk-benefit analysis to justify...

Print Los Angeles County on Thursday appealed a judge’s decision that barred an extension of its temporary ban on outdoor dining, calling the ruling “plainly erroneous and directly contrary to governing law.” L.A. County Superior Court Judge James Chalfant ruled last week that the county should not be allowed to continue the ban indefinitely and would need to provide a risk-benefit analysis to justify the restriction if it wanted to extend the ban beyond its initial three weeks, which e...

-Submitted photo Jason Powell, left, a paramedic with the Chicago Fire Department, and his father, retired Chicago firefighter Jack Powell, display some of the pheasants they bagged during a weekend hunt in the Fort Dodge area. They were invited to the area to hunt in a gesture intended to thank them for their service. A couple of Fort Dodge firefighters joined the hunt on Sunday. The outing was organized by Jim Kersten, of Fort Dodge, and his former college roommate, Doug Aller, of Chicago...

LOS ANGELES (KUSI) – Los Angeles County health officials acted “arbitrarily” and without a proper “risk-benefit” analysis when they banned outdoor dining as a coronavirus-control measure, a judge ruled Tuesday, but the decision won’t immediately restore in-person dining. Following a hearing that lasted more than an hour, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Chalfant upheld an earlier tentative ruling, in which he found that the county “failed to perform the required risk-benefit...