Briggs v. Lawrence

How courts have described this case

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• holding, in the context of a legal malpractice claim, that public defenders are public employees within the meaning of California’s Tort Claims Act
• applying the Restatement test and noting that attorneys were not “engaged in a distinct occupation or business” where they “devoted their full time to their duties as public defenders for Monterey County”
• noting “what 16 amounts to a requirement that (with exceptions not relevant here

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