Civil Litigation
Mar. 30, 2021
LA County asks to be dismissed from skid row alliance lawsuit
The lawsuit by people who live, work and own businesses in skid row state the city and county made homelessness worse by failing to enforce anti-vagrancy laws.
Denying any responsibility for the growing homelessness crisis, Los Angeles County is asking to be dismissed as a defendant in a lawsuit brought by business owners who live, work or own property in skid row.
"While the county shares plaintiffs' goal of providing shelter to all [homeless people] their lawsuit is not the proper forum," Skip Miller, a lawyer for the county, wrote in the motion. "Complex policy questions about how to ad...
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