Lawyers love obscure rules about giving three-day notices—the kind that California landlords hate. The recent decision in City of Alameda v. Sheehan (2024) 105 Cal.App.5th 68 teaches that there is a wrong way to issue a notice to pay rent or quit to a delinquent tenant. The rules governing unlawful detainers must be strictly followed.

In Sheehan, the tenant had stopped paying rent for 17 months (the opinion is unclear as to why). The landlord, City of Alameda, had enough. The City directed its property manager, RiverRock Real Estate Group, Inc. to get the tenant current or to ...

Beginning July 23, 2024, California's Indoor Heat Illness Prevention regulations apply to most indoor workplaces.  Among other things, the regulations require that employers implement certain indoor heat illness prevention measures when the indoor temperature reaches certain benchmark levels.  Additionally, employers must develop and implement a written indoor heat illness prevention plan (IHIPP) in the language understood by the majority of workers.

Required heat illness prevention measures must be implemented in most cases when indoor temperatures reach 82°F to ...