Police misconduct, December 2012: Petaluma city has agreed to pay $500,000 to a man who was bitten by a police dog, leaving him with a missing chunk of biceps.

Abusive termination of employment, January 2013: employee/whistleblower fired for reporting fraud in the “buy-back” program of recycled glass, plastic and aluminum get his lawsuit reinstated. McVeigh leveled serious charges of fraud, embezzlement and corruption against San Francisco-based Recology, accusing the unregulated garbage collection monopoly of bilking the State of California and taxpayers out of millions of dollars.

Police shooting death case: The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for the family of a man with bipolar disorder to go to trial in a suit against Santa Rosa and its Police Department, which said officers mistakenly thought he was armed when they shot him to death in 2007.