SANTA ANA, Calif.—Attorneys for Mary’s Kitchen, which serves transients in Orange, filed a temporary restraining order request in federal court on Sept. 15 to attempt to stop the city from evicting the nonprofit organization. “Mary’s Kitchen has been the only service provider in the city of Orange for unhoused adults without children for over three decades,” the attorneys said in the complaint. “The day shelter operates in furtherance of its religious beliefs to serve those in need of sustenance and place of respite. “Repeatedly, the city identified Mary’s Kitchen as a resource to meet the state statutory housing element required for approval of the city’s general plan for development. Not only has the city put forward Mary’s Kitchen’s services to satisfy state law mandates, it also identified the day shelter as available services to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, where both the city of Orange and the …