The California Correctional Peace Officers Association may have to start making $500,000 payments every three months and put up its West Sacramento headquarters and other property as it appeals its loss in a federal defamation case.
After hearing arguments this morning, Judge Lawrence Karlton is still deciding what to do about CCPOA's inability to buy a bond to cover a judgment rendered last October in his Sacramento courtroom -- eventually reduced from $12 million to $5 million by the court -- while the union appeals to San Francisco's 9th Circuit Court.
Plaintiff Brian Dawe is appealing to the same court to restore the full award.
CCPOA said last month that it didn't have enough liquid assets to buy a bond to cover an amount equal to 125 percent of the $5 million award.