Overview

• U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria refused on August 8 to enjoin the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors from firing Corpus under Measure A
• Under the voter-approved charter amendment, a retired judge will begin a multi-day removal hearing on August 18 but the board is not bound by the ruling
• Corpus’s federal complaint argues that several supervisors have already declared her guilty and are acting as judge, jury, and executioner
• Former Department of Justice official Tom Perez joined Corpus’s legal team on August 7 to support her constitutional challenge
• The board’s Measure A process runs in parallel with a civil grand jury investigation that has advanced misconduct accusations against Corpus