Litigating Habitability Claims Against Bad Landlords

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California has a comprehensive set of laws to protect renters from bad landlords. A landlord who fails to substantially comply with the minimum standards under the law related to a dwelling unit is liable to a tenant for a breach of contract and for personal injuries, including emotional distress. Where the conduct is extreme, punitive damages can also be awarded. In many cases, a tenant that can establish that a landlord has failed to provide a habitable premise, may be ...

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Lawsuit seeks to end “gang mentality” of infamous California surfers

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A new lawsuit claims a group of local surfers is harassing outsiders who try to ride the waves at a highly desirable piece of surfing real estate south of Los Angeles. The area is officially open to the public, but stories of confrontations in Lunada Bay go back decades, reports CBS News correspondent Carter Evans. “You guys lost or something? Stay away from this area, this bay right here.” That’s the welcome two British reporters from the Guardian newspaper got ...

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Lunada Bay surfer gang targeted by class-action lawsuit

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El Segundo police officer who says he has been harassed by a group of surfers known as the Lunada Bay Boys of wealthy Palos Verdes Estates joined other alleged victims to file a class-action lawsuit on Tuesday.

The officer, Cory Spencer, and other plaintiffs are asking a federal judge to prevent members of the gang from congregating at the Bay, one of California most coveted surf breaks.

Additionally, the suit targets the city of Palos Verdes Estates, asking a judge to require the ...

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More surfers harassed by Bay Boys want to join lawsuit, attorney says

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Attorneys seeking an injunction to ban the infamous Bay Boys from the beach they jealously guard in Palos Verdes Estates have received dozens of calls and emails from people wanting to join their lawsuit.

The class-action suit, filed last week in federal court by surfers Cory Spencer and Diana Milena Reed, names the affluent city, its police chief and eight alleged Bay Boys on behalf of all beachgoers who have been harassed at the Lunada Bay spot known as much for ...

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El Segundo Officer, Other Alleged Victims File Class-Action Lawsuit Against Lunada Bay Surfers

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An El Segundo police officer who says he has been harassed by a group of surfers known as the Lunada Bay Boys of wealthy Palos Verdes Estates joined other alleged victims to file a class-action lawsuit on Tuesday.

The officer, Cory Spencer, and other plaintiffs are asking a federal judge to prevent members of the gang from congregating at the Bay, one of California most coveted surf breaks.

Additionally, the suit targets the city of Palos Verdes Estates, asking a judge ...

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PALOS VERDES ESTATES SURFERS SUED FOR INTIMIDATING OUTSIDERS, LAWSUIT STATES

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PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. (KABC) — The city of Palos Verdes Estates and a group of surfers known as the “Lunada Bay Boys” are being sued.

The lawsuit accused the surfers of using violence and intimidation to chase away outsiders. It also claimed the city did nothing to prevent such attacks.

Diana Reed and El Segundo Police Officer Cory Spencer filed a federal class-action lawsuit asking a judge to prevent the group of surfers from gathering at ...

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Otten Law, PC Files Appeal on Behalf Of The Calguns Foundation, Seven Californians Against Attorney General Kamala Harris, DOJ Over Gun Delays

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September 12, 2014

Torrance, CA: Today Otten Law, PC filed it’s opening brief in the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Fifth Appellate District in the matter of Daniel Schoepf, et al. vs. Kamala Harris, et. al. The case was filed last year to compel the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) to follow the law regarding the amount of time that it has to conduct a background check for the purchaser of a firearm. Because the lawsuit forced the DOJ ...

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Federal Court Decides 10-day Waiting Period Laws Violate Second Amendment Rights

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ROSEVILLE, CA (August 25, 2014)

California’s 10-day waiting period for gun purchases was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge this morning in a significant victory for Second Amendment rights. The laws were challenged by California gun owners Jeffrey Silvester and Brandon Combs, as well as two gun rights groups, The Calguns Foundation and Second Amendment Foundation. Attorneys Victor Otten of Torrance, Jason Davis of Mission Viejo, and Don Kilmer of San Jose represented the Plaintiffs.

In the ...

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Federal District Court Denies California Attorney General Kamala Harris’s Motion For Summary Adjudication; Paving The Way For A Constitutional Challenge To Certain Aspects Of California’s Waiting Period Laws

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On December 23, 2011, The Calguns Foundation, The Second Amendment Foundation and several individual plaintiffs filed suit against the California Attorney General Kamala Harris challenging the mandatory 10-day waiting period for a firearm as an infringement of the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment, as it applies to individuals who have been found qualified to, and have, purchased firearms in the past. The lawsuit does not challenge the 10-day waiting period for those individuals that have not purchased ...

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California Supreme Court Rules Local Governments To Turn Over Mapping Data

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On July 8, 2013, the Supreme Court of California decided local government must turn over computer mapping data without charging excessive fees.

The decision involved an appeal by the Sierra Club, which was charged $375,000 by Orange County for a mapping database of 640,000 land parcels that were in geographic information system (“GIS”) format and can be read by most mapping software.

The case, which took six years to make its way through the courts, included an Amicus Brief submitted by Otten ...

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