Los Angeles Catholic Worker - Dorothy Day's truth goes marching on right here in the City of Angels.Skid Row Neighborhood Council Formation Committee.Our costs are paid by a generous private grant, but these people can use your money, and lots of it, friends!
M AUDIO MBOX 2 PRO TRIAL
Well, as the man said, “if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them.” On December 2, 2015, Judge Gutierrez filed an order pushing the trial date back three months to July 2016 to give the parties time to work everything out.Ĭontinue reading LACW, LACAN Lawsuit Against CCEA, City of LA, NOT Continued Until July Due to Successful-ish Ongoing Settlement Talks. Because these early settlement conferences indicated a potential for resolution of this case, and because all parties are non-profits and government entities, the parties have attempted to delay incurring significant litigation expenses from discovery and motion practice while the parties have been actively engaged in settlement negotiations.Īnd there’s more of that kind of thing in the stipulation. The parties believe future talks will continue to be productive and are amenable to participating in further sessions with Judge Woehrle. …continue to engage in settlement negotiations and are actively exchanging proposals. The parties filed a joint stipulation stating that they Trial is still set for April 26, 2016.Īccording to pleadings filed on November 30, 2015, settlement talks in the lawsuit filed by Los Angeles Catholic Worker and the Los Angeles Community Action Network against the City of Los Angeles and the Central City East Association, which runs the Downtown Industrial District BID, are proceeding well. The joint proposed motion filed by the parties was DENIED by the court.
City of LA, Central City East Association Lawsuit May Settle Within Two Weeks →Īmmon Hennacy in Santa Monica in July, 1966. The City of Los Angeles in particular has indicated that it needs additional time to consider Plaintiffs’ proposal but that it will be responding shortly.Ĭontinue reading Document Filed in Federal Court Yesterday Suggests that LA Community Action Network, LA Catholic Worker v. The settlement conferences with Judge Woehrle have been very productive, and based on the most recent settlement conference and subsequent discussions, parties are hopeful that further settlement discussions over the next two weeks may lead to resolution of many if not all matters in this litigation. I suppose they’re not making the same mistake again). The document is a joint stipulation asking that discovery be delayed (but not the trial date if you’ve been following the case you’ll recall that last November the parties asked Judge Gutierrez to delay the trial, but he refused.
M AUDIO MBOX 2 PRO FULL
Marcus’s main point seems to be that he met with Carol Sobel for four hours in the company of Magistrate Judge Carla Woerhle and they couldn’t come to a common understanding about what the order meant.Ĭontinue reading City of Los Angeles asks Judge Otero to Clarify Last Month’s Preliminary Injunction Against Full Enforcement of LAMC 56.11 →ĬCEA Secret Headquarters at 725 Crocker Street, downtown Los Angeles.A document filed in Federal Court yesterday suggests that the LACAN/LACW lawsuit against the City of LA and the CCEA over the illegal confiscation of the property of the homeless may be within a scant two weeks of a settlement. They also filed a proposed order for the Judge’s signature which, I imagine, is mostly of value here as it shows what the City wishes the injunction means.Īdditionally the city filed a map of Skid Row, a copy of LAMC 56.11, and a declaration of Scott Marcus, the assistant chief of the Civil Litigation Branch of the City Attorney’s office. Today the City filed a motion asking Otero to clarify what he meant. Recall that last month Judge Otero issued a preliminary injunction forbidding the City of Los Angeles from confiscating the property of homeless people in and/or around Skid Row without following required due process. LA as well as our other stories on the subject for the background to this post). (See Gale Holland’s excellent story in the Times on Mitchell v.