Caldwell
Caldwell v. City of San Francisco
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 MAURICE CALDWELL, Case No. 12-cv-01892-DMR
Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING MOTION TO
v. DISQUALIFY COUNSEL
CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 489 Defendants.
Defendants Kitt Crenshaw and City and County of San Francisco (“San Francisco”) filed a motion to disqualify Plaintiff Maurice Caldwell’s counsel James Quadra. [Docket No. 489.] This matter is appropriate for decision without a hearing. Civ. L.R. 7-1(b). For the following reasons, the motion is denied. I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND A. The Tennison and Goff Cases1 In 2004, the San Francisco City Attorney (“City Attorney”) hired Quadra to represent former San Francisco police chief Earl Sanders and former police homicide inspector Napoleon Hendrix in Tennison v. City & County of San Francisco, No. 04-cv-00574-CW (N.D. Cal., filed Feb. 11, 2004), and a related case, Goff v. City & County of San Francisco, No. 04-cv-01643-CW (N.D. Cal., filed Apr.…