Attorney Pamela Dempsey
SHERBONDY VS MOUNTAIN
EMPIRE UNIFIED SCHOOL
DISTRICT ITS
SUPERINTENDENT AND
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Case Number:          
GIC866959            
Case Location:         San
Diego            
Case Type:         Civil           
Date Filed:         
06/02/2006                         
Category:         CU-BCW         
Breach of
Contract/Warranty                
Andra Shelton ashelton@meusd.net Descanso Elementary
Andrea Denlinger adenlinger@meusd.net Campo Elementary
Aurora Alvarez aalvarez@meusd.net Special Ed / Pupil Services
Barbara Cowling bcowling@meusd.net Potrero Elementary
Bette Palovchik bpalovchik@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Bill Dennett bdennett@meusd.net Descanso Elementary
Bill Leblanc bleblanc@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Brian Brisbois bbrisbois@meusd.net Campo Elementary
Candy Anderson candya@meusd.net Pine Valley Elementary
Carol Rinkes crinkes@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Carolyne Maki cmaki@meusd.net Alternative Education
Cathy Dick cdick@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Cathy McGinnis cmcginnis@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Charlene Bradbury cbradbury@meusd.net District Office
Chris Anderson canderson1@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Claudia Adkins cadkins@meusd.net Potrero Elementary
Claudia White cwhite@meusd.net Descanso Elementary
Colleen Elliott celliott@meusd.net PreSchool
Colleen Mallon cmallon@meusd.net District Office
Craig Matern cmatern@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
David Covey dcovey@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
David Etnire detnire@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Debbie Hoffman dhoffman@meusd.net After School Programs
Debbie Minard dminard@meusd.net District Office
Debbie Patterson dpatterson@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Debbie Schwab dschwab@meusd.net Clover Flat Elementary
Debbie Troutt dtroutt@meusd.net Clover Flat Elementary
Debi Inman dinman@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Deirdre Carter dcarter@meusd.net Descanso Elementary & Pine Valley
Elementary
Delores Thompson dthompson@meusd.net Pine Valley Elementary
Diane Yops dyops@meusd.net Campo Elementary
Elaine Duckworth educkworth@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Elizabeth Sjoquist esjoquist@meusd.net Campo Elementary
Evelyn Nusic enusic@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Florence Glaubius fglaubius@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Fred Kamper fkamper@meusd.net Clover Flat Elementary
Gary Priester gpriester@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Georgia Kinninger gkinninger@meusd.net Pine Valley Elementary
Geri Bullock gbullock@meusd.net Campo Elementary
Gloria Tanner gtanner@meusd.net Descanso Elementary
Grace Johovich gjohovich@meusd.net Potrero Elementary
Heather Jones hjones@meusd.net After School Programs
Jackie Bjornson jbjornson@meusd.net Special Ed / Pupil Services
Jacquelin Maize jmaize@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
James Bloch jbloch@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
James Jones jjones@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Jan Hagan jhagan@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Jan McDaid jmcdaid@meusd.net Special Ed / Pupil Services
Janet Johnson jjohnson@meusd.net Descanso Elementary
Janice Wilkins jwilkins@meusd.net Alternative Education
Jarrod Sills jsills@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Jeanne Nelson jnelson@meusd.net Transportation
Jeffrey Arroyo jarroyo@meusd.net Alternative Education
Jennifer Wagner jwagner@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Jessica Turner jturner@meusd.net Jacumba Elementary
Jill Seaman jseaman@meusd.net Potrero Elementary
Jim Clark jamesc@meusd.net District Office
Joan Baumann jbaumann@meusd.net Clover Flat Elementary / Jacumba
Elementary
Jon McGuffin jmcguffin@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Julie Brown jbrown@meusd.net Campo Elementary
Karen Anglin kanglin@meusd.net Campo Elementary
Karen Jones kjones@meusd.net Jacumba Elementary
Karen Koon kkoon@meusd.net Descanso Elementary
Karen Landman klandman@meusd.net Clover Flat Elementary
Karen Loftis kloftis@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Kari  Maxwell kmaxwell@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Kathryn Dolan kdolan@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Kathy Bello kbello@meusd.net Potrero Elementary
Kelly Cox kcox@meusd.net After School Programs
Kelly Thompson kthompson@meusd.net Descanso Elementary
Kelly Tulloch ktulloch@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Ken Engleman kengleman@meusd.net Alternative Education
Kim Stephens-Doll kstephendsdoll@meusd.net Potrero Elementary
Kristina Scherer kscherer@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Laura Turner lturner@meusd.net Potrero Elementary
Leah Locke llocke@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Leonard Bole lbole@meusd.net Descanso Elementary
Les Ferguson lferguson@meusd.net Clover Flat Elementary
Leslie Tulloch ltulloch@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Leta Teasdale lteasdale@meusd.net Jacumba Elementary
Linda Broersma lbroersma@meusd.net Campo Elementary
Linda Higley lhigley@meusd.net District Office
Linda Newman lnewman@meusd.net Pine Valley Elementary
Linda Shannon lshannon@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Lisa Stoffel lstoffel@meusd.net Alternative Education
Lisa Stoveken lstoveken@meusd.net Maintenance Department
Liz West lwest@meusd.net Clover Flat Elementary
Lizann Parker lparker@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Lora Grisafi lgrisafi@meusd.net Transportation
Lorena Enriquez lenriquez@meusd.net Potrero Elementary
Lyall Kitson lkitson@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Lynn Gieske lgeiske@meusd.net Pine Valley Elementary
Maggie Nunez mnunez@meusd.net Potrero Elementary
Marcia McEvoy mmcevoy@meusd.net Descanso Elementary
Margaret Doolittle mdoolittle@meusd.net Special Ed / Pupil Services
Margaret Sydek msydek@meusd.net Pine Valley Elementary
Mari Mann mmann@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Maria Gaddis mgaddis@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Maria Virag mvirag@meusd.net Clover Flat Elementary
Marilyn Bailey mbailey@meusd.net District    
Marlene Ward MITboulevard@sciti.com Campo Elementary
Martha Swallow mswallow@meusd.net Potrero Elementary
Martha Traubel mtraubel@meusd.net Clover Flat Elementary
Martin Pearson mpearson@meusd.net Potrero Elementary
Mary Hall mhall@meusd.net After School Programs
Mary Weaver mweaver@meusd.net Descanso Elementary
Mary-Ann Devito mdevito@meusd.net Alternative Education
Max Robinson mrobinson@meusd.net District Office
Melissa Mann memann@meusd.net Special Ed / Pupil Services
Mona Noren mnoren@meusd.net Clover Flat Elementary
Nadine Rodgers nadiner@sciti.com Campo Elementary
Norma Rodarte nrodarte@hotmail.com Campo Elementary
Olin Elliott oelliott@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Pat Devine pdevine@meusd.net Clover Flat Elementary
Patrick Judd pjudd@meusd.net District Office
Patrick Kerr pkerr@meusd.net Alternative Education
Patty Reed preed@meusd.net Campo Elementary
Paul Mallon pmallon@meusd.net Transportation
Peggy Frederick pfrederick@meusd.net Pine Valley Elementary
Peggy Hayden phayden@meusd.net Clover Flat Elementary
Ray Johnson rjohnson@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Rick Abood rabood@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Rita Carroll rcarroll@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
RoayAnn Murphy rmurphy@meusd.net Campo Elementary
Roger Wynn rwynn@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Rosalind Wallhauser rwallhauser@meusd.net District Office
Rose Ann Morris rmorris@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Ruby SisQueros llama6967@hotmail.com Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Sandy Downing sdowning@meusd.net Clover Flat Elementary
Sara Ram sram@meusd.net Jacumba Elementary
Sean Carter scarter@meusd.net Potrero Elementary
Shawna Tippins stippins@meusd.net Special Ed / Pupil Services
Sheila Hadsell shadsell@meusd.net Alternative Education
Shirley Langford slangford@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Silvia Machado smachado1234@hotmail.com Campo Elementary
Stacy Huguley shuguley@meusd.net Campo Elementary
Stacy LaFalce slafalce@meusd.net Campo Elementary
Steve Carroll scarroll@meusd.net Maintenance Department
Steve Gordon sgordon@meusd.net Alternative Education
Sue Sherbondy ssherbondy@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Susan Jenkins sjenkins@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Susan Lafo slafo@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Suzanne Bowen sbowen@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Sylvia Biddle sbiddle@meusd.net Potrero Elementary
Tammy Inman tinman@meusd.net Clover Flat Elementary
Tammy Morrison tmorrison@meusd.net Clover Flat Elementary
Tara Henderson thenderson@meusd.net District Office
Theresa Harrell tharrell@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Tim McCrerey tmccrerey@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Tom Prickett tprickett@meusd.net Potrero Elementary
Tracy Peters luv2bedifferent@hotmail.com Campo Elementary
Tyler Newton tnewton@meusd.net Clover Flat Elementary
Verba "Button" Diebold vdiebold@meusd.net Transportation
Vicky Leonhardt vleonhardt@meusd.net Clover Flat Elementary
Yearbook Staff yearbookstaff@meusd.net Mountain Empire Jr / Sr High
Pamela Dempsey; doesn't
work for Parham and Rajcic


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Office of the Pardon
Attorney—GS-12 to GS-15
Experienced Attorneys ...
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Biography
Pamela A. Dempsey

Pam Dempsey is a partner in the Laguna Hills office of Parham & Rajcic.  Pam is a
member of the California Bar Association
specializing in school, civil and business litigation.  She was Valedictorian of her
graduating class from Western State University, where she received a Juris Doctor
degree, Magna Cum Laude.  Pam was a member of the Western State Law
Review, received five American Jurisprudence awards and was the recipient of the annual
Foundation Press and Corpus Juris
Secundum Awards for three consecutive years.  After graduation from law school, Pam
clerked for the Honorable Warren J. Ferguson, Judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal.  

She became an associate in the litigation department of Rhodes, Kendall & Harrington
handling litigation in both State and Federal Courts.  Her clients included lending
institutions, banks, personal property brokers, land developers and both private and
public corporations.  

Pam accepted a position as general counsel for an international licensor of technology
and construction equipment, and
handled all corporate legal matters and proprietary and trade secret technology licensing
and regulations both in the United
States and abroad.  Responsible for the entire legal department, she handled all
corporate litigation in both state and federal courts, including civil and federal claims, as
well as directing and supervising outside counsel.  

Her areas of concentration include litigation, most significantly in the school context,
where she has handled actions involving
complex constitutional and discrimination claims, business and construction law as it
impacts facilities management and
planning, tort defense and administrative proceedings up to and including judicial review.

Pam's bench and jury trials have included claims by employees and others for wrongful
termination, constitutional rights
violations, fraud  and discrimination.  In addition,  she has experience in construction
litigation where she has successfully
defended and also litigated  construction defect claims, as well as handled litigation
through both jury and bench trials.

Prior to law school, she was a legal secretary for large and small law firms in Los
Angeles and Orange counties.  Pam has a
daughter and four granddaughters who live in North Carolina.

http://www.parhamandrajcic.com/Pam3.html


Education
Western State University School of Law, Fullerton, CA, 1984
J.D., Magna Cum Laude

Honors: Valedictorian, American Jurisprudence Awards in
Contracts, Torts, and Real Property

Bar Admissions
California, 1984

Memberships
Orange County Bar Association
01/28/08 09:00AM C-75    

Strauss, Richard E.
L.         
Civil Jury Tria
GIC866959                      

Defendant/Respondent   

MOUNTAIN EMPIRE UNIFIED
SCHOOL DISTRICT ITS
SUPERINTENDENT AND
BOARD OF TRUSTEES    
Attorney: PAMELA A.
DEMPSEY        
P) SUE
SHERBONDY             
Attorney: JON Y.
VANDERPOOL        
Mountain Empire Staff
downloaded January 2008
Parham & Rajcic
CVESD lawsuit:
the Danielle Coziahr case
Atty. Pamela Dempsey for
school district
Attys. Laura Joan Farris
and Dan Carroll for plaintiff
Dec. 2007
Pamela Dempsey loses
lawsuit against CVESD
Trial in Sherbondy case:
02/19/08 09:00AM C-47     
Whitney, Richard S.            
Civil Jury Tria
GIC866959                      
D)MOUNTAIN EMPIRE
UNIFIED S
PAMELA A. DEMPSEY     

02/19/08 09:00AM C-47     
Whitney, Richard S.          
GIC866959                      
P)SUE SHERBONDY             
JON Y. VANDERPOOL        

Bizarrely, the district switched
to lawyer Stephenie
Vaudreuil, then to lawyer
Dan Shinoff, in this case.
A completely
different Pamela
Dempsey

Pamela Dempsey,
51; lawyer helped
children through
transitions

By Elizabeth Raftery,
Globe
June 15, 2006


Boston.com

In her two decades as a
lawyer for the Department
of Social Services,
Pamela Gail Dempsey
was an advocate for
abused and neglected
children in and out of the
courtroom.

She often kept in touch
with children after they
had been placed in
adoptive or foster homes,
giving them gifts to
celebrate their
placements and help them
through the transition.

``She took the work to a
different level," said her
daughter, Janelle
Dempsey of Somerville.
``She really cared. She
would bring them a photo
album that they could fill
up with pictures, or a
journal they could write in."

Mrs. Dempsey extended
the same caring and
encouraging attitude
toward her daughter.

``She basically made me
feel like the world was
open to me, and made
sure that I had every
opportunity that I could
ever dream of," her
daughter said. ``She lived
that way . . . and that's
kind of the way that she
raised me as well, that if
you want something bad
enough and you work
hard enough, any
opportunity can be yours."

Mrs. Dempsey died last
Thursday at her home in
Somerville of lung cancer.
She was 51.

Born in Dedham, Mrs.
Dempsey graduated from
Dedham High School in
1972 and earned her
associate's degree from
MassBay Community
College in 1974. She
graduated from the
University of
Massachusetts at Amherst
in 1977 with a bachelor's
degree in juvenile justice,
and put herself through
law school at
Northeastern University,
graduating in 1981.

After working in private
practice and family law in
Orlando and Cambridge,
Mrs. Dempsey began
working for DSS in 1985.

``She had an abiding
commitment to poor kids,
abused and neglected
kids," said Jay McManus
of the Children's Law
Center of Massachusetts ,
who worked with Mrs.
Dempsey in the Lawrence
Juvenile Court. ``I think
that's why she found
herself working at DSS."

In 1989, she left DSS
briefly to work on divorce
and paternity cases with
the law firm of Lee, Levine
& Bowser, but quickly
found herself drawn back
to child advocacy.

``She hated it, basically,
because the stuff didn't
compare to what she was
dealing with at DSS," said
her daughter. ``I think she
just wanted a work that
really hit her heart, that
was difficult to deal with,
that was something that
not everyone could deal
with on a daily basis."

Mrs. Dempsey returned to
DSS in 1991 and received
the Commissioner's Award
for her work in 2005.

``She certainly took a very
strong interest in the
welfare of these kids,"
McManus said, estimating
that Mrs. Dempsey
handled hundreds of
cases of abused and
neglected children. ``Even
after the case essentially
left the trial stage, she
really was a pretty
concerned individual."

Mrs. Dempsey's devotion
to her work did not affect
her commitment as a
single parent, however.
She encouraged her
daughter's involvement in
theater and music, and
supported her desire to
attend New York
University.

``Most parents, when their
son or daughter wants to
major in drama, they're
not too excited about it,"
her daughter said. ``But
my mom was really
excited."

Mrs. Dempsey's
dedication to her
daughter was not lost on
her co-workers.

``She was so proud of
[Janelle] and so invested
in making sure that she
had everything she
needed as a kid, and
really did a very nice job
raising her while she was
working full time," said
McManus. ``I think if
there's any lasting legacy
that most people would
remember her for, it would
be that."

Before her death, Mrs.
Dempsey stipulated that
she did not want a
traditional funeral.

``She really wanted it to
be more of a celebration,"
her daughter said. ``She
enjoyed life and all of life's
opportunities and
possibilities, and all of its
gifts."

Janelle said her mother
was a ``very colorful
person" who loved
flowers, and said she
requested that anyone
who attended her
memorial service wear
``bright, vibrant, and
cheerful clothing."

``It's very her to not want
people to be so somber,"
she said. ``She's always
thinking about other
people and wants them to
be able to move on."

In addition to her
daughter, Mrs. Dempsey
leaves her mother and
stepfather, Elinor and
Richard T. Rooney of
Dedham; a sister, Janice
Munchbach of Dedham;
and a brother, John
Dempsey of Austin, Texas.


http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/
2006/06/15/pamela_dempsey_51_lawyer_helped_chi
ldren_through_transitions/
Teacher wins $1 million lawsuit

Baltimore Sun education blog

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.
com/news/education/blog
/2007/12/teacher_wins_lawsuit.
html

A third-grade teacher from
California has been awarded
a $1 million judgment after a
jury found the Chula Vista
Elementary School District (in
San Diego County) had
discriminated against her
when she lost her job after
becoming pregnant.

"Danielle Coziahr was a
probationary teacher at Silver
Wing Elementary School in
Otay Mesa for the 2004-05
and 2005-06 school years.
School districts can choose
not to renew the contracts of
such teachers without giving a
reason," according to an
article in today's Union
Tribune. "A jury decided
Friday that there was a
reason – Coziahr was
discriminated against. The
jury found that the school
district decided not to
continue her employment,
which would have made her a
tenured teacher, because she
is a woman."

“The money is an
afterthought,” the article
quotes Coziahr. “I wasn't
seeking litigation for
compensation. I was seeking
litigation to clear my name. I'm
basically blackballed. I can no
longer teach in San Diego
County. My teaching career
has ended.”

Posted by Gina Davis on
December 12, 2007
Blog regarding the Danielle
Coziahr case
Atty. Pamela Dempsey for
school district; (then
Stephenie Vaudreuil, then
Daniel Shinoff)
Attys. Laura Joan Farris and
Dan Carroll for plaintiff.
Feb. 6, 2008 ruling
Feb. 13, 2008 ruling
Feb. 29 ruling: new trial
denied
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