In Re: County Of Los Angeles

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “[t]he [California] courts of appeal developed a general rule that the presumption is not rebuttable”
• stating that federal courts “apply state law in determining matters of disqualification” and that they “follow the reasoned view of the state supreme court when it has spoken on the issue”
• interpreting SpeeDee Oil as suggesting that the California Supreme Court “may be inclined” to allow law firms to erect ethical walls to avoid disqualification
• finding a timely and effective ethical wall had been' imposed where the law firm had removed all files concerning the pending case before the conflicted lawyer joined the firm; all attorneys had been instructed not to discuss the case with him, and he did not have access to the case file
• “A motion to disqualify a law firm can be a powerful litigation tactic to deny an opposing party’s counsel of choice.”
• emphasizing screening measures taken before tainted individual joined the firm

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).