Tag: Los Angeles Superior Court

Judge Issues Final Ruling Favorable to Los Angeles Street Vendors

March 16, 2023
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LOS ANGELES—A judge March 16 allowed a coalition of street vendors suing the city of Los Angeles over its no-vending zones to proceed with a legal challenge to the ordinance. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant finalized a tentative ruling he issued Wednesday, overruling the city’s first legal challenge to the petition brought…

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Long Beach Vacant Lot Fee Challenged in Jarvis Group Suit

March 8, 2023
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LOS ANGELES—A Long Beach property owner who along with the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association is challenging the constitutionality of a municipal ordinance that charges landowners a monthly fee for letting their property sit vacant says his lot hasn’t hurt the property values of others and that the city has made it too costly to develop….

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Nearly 300 File Lawsuit Over Alleged Abuse at LA County Juvenile Halls

December 28, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—Nearly 300 boys and girls were allegedly sexually assaulted, harassed, and abused for decades by Los Angeles County probation and detention officers, according to a lawsuit recently filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. The 359-page lawsuit filed Dec. 20 alleges minor detainees at Los Angeles County juvenile camps and detention centers were abused during…

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Judge Blocks Sheriff’s Probe of Kuehl, Metro

September 17, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—Legal wrangling has escalated over the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department’s corruption probe of Supervisor Sheila Kuehl and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority—with a judge barring investigators from delving into computers seized from Metro during searches this week, and the sheriff’s department claiming the county fired its attorney in the matter. The sheriff’s department issued a…

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Judge Removes Self From Herb Wesson’s City Council Replacement Case

August 5, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—A judge who recently again blocked Herb Wesson from acting as a temporary replacement for suspended Los Angeles City Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas has removed herself from further proceedings in the case. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mary H. Strobel had issued a temporary restraining order on July 19 preventing Wesson from performing any council…

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