In January, the Second District Court of Appeal issued its opinion about the validity of the property deed restrictions and the propriety of the 2012 sale of parkland in Palos Verdes Estates. The Palos Verdes Homes Association filed a Petition for Rehearing asking the same three appellate justices who decided the case to change their… Continue Reading Court of Appeal Denies Rehearing of Parkland Appeal
For some time, an organization named “Residents for Open Board Elections” or “ROBE” has been attempting to get the Palos Verdes Homes Association to allow votes to be counted in the annual election to determine the members of the Board of Directors. The PV Homes Association’s long standing practice is not to count the votes… Continue Reading Court Orders PV Homes Association to Count Votes
Ted Rall is an award-winning nationally syndicated political cartoonist who was terminated by the Los Angeles Times as a favor to outgoing LAPD Chief Charlie Beck in 2015. (At the time, the LAPD Protective League pension fund was the biggest shareholder of the Times’ parent company.) Adding insult to injury, the Times published two pieces,… Continue Reading Cartoonist Ted Rall Takes His Battle Against the Los Angeles Times to the California Courts of Appeal
Today the Court of Appeal issued its decision in the long simmering dispute over the City of Palos Verdes Estates’ sale of parkland. A copy of the decision can be read here. In sum, the Court of Appeal agreed that summary judgment should have been granted as to the Palos Verdes Homes Association (“Homes Association”)… Continue Reading Court of Appeal Finds Deed Restrictions Apply and are Enforceable in Palos Verdes Estates
The Daily Breeze reports here on the going legal dispute over the quorum for board elections for the Palos Verdes Homes Association: The next hearing is set for Feb. 15, where Jeff Lewis, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said he will ask the judge to lower the threshold for a quorum. A quorum hasn’t been reached… Continue Reading PV Homes Fails to Get Quorum for Board Election, Jeff Lewis to Return to Court
The Daily Breeze reports on a parent group upset that PV High allowed a suspect in a gang murder to continue attending PV High. From the article: On Monday, attorney Jeffrey Lewis said about a dozen parents forming the group Residents Against Gangs at School sent a letter to the Palos Verdes Peninsula school board… Continue Reading PV Parents Call on School Board to Resolve Threat of Murder Suspect Attending PV High School
From Today’s Daily Breeze: A Superior Court judge has ruled that the Palos Verdes Peninsula school board twice violated California’s open meetings law in 2016 as it was putting an end to an agreement to install solar panels in district schools. Torrance Superior Court Judge William Fahey, in a tentative ruling Sept. 5 that likely… Continue Reading Judge rules Palos Verdes Peninsula school board violated open meetings law
Ted Rall is a political cartoonist and syndicated columnist. For many years his cartoons were run in the Los Angeles Times. The LA Times stopped running his work after the LAPD claimed that Rall made false statements about the LAPD in a Rall piece that was critical of the LAPD and chronicled an incident when… Continue Reading Jeff Lewis will represent Ted Rall in First Amendment appeal over defamatory comments by the LA Times
The Daily Breeze published this article about the lawsuit filed by Jeff Lewis to lower the quorum requirements for the Palos Verdes Homes Association annual elections.
