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Civil Litigation

Sep. 20, 2018

Jurors shown images of filth flooding homes built on landfill

Opening statements began in a negligence trial alleging property owners have allowed homes to sink into the ground while the defense says residents were fully informed and problems were addressed.

Jurors shown images of filth flooding homes built on landfill
Brian Kabateck of Kabateck Brown Kellner LLP

LOS ANGELES -- As a superior court jury was shown pictures of a mobile home park flooded with fecal matter Wednesday, residents sitting in the back of the courtroom covered their faces and wept.

Opening statements began in a negligence trial alleging property owners of the Friendly Village mobile home park in Long Beach have allowed homes to sink into the ground, the result of poorly maintaining a neighborhood that sits over a form...

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