Environmental & Energy,
Civil Litigation
Apr. 17, 2025
City blames homeowners' choices in landslide lawsuits
Rolling Hills argues homeowners knew of landslide risks and assumed liability by building there, denying responsibility in lawsuits over destroyed homes, unlike other defendants' varied defenses.
The City of Rolling Hills says it doesn't owe anything to homeowners suing over landslides that have destroyed their homes because the land movement was a long-running, ongoing problem that the plaintiffs knew about, and by building there, they voluntarily assumed those risks.
"[P]laintiffs, by engaging in the activity out of which the injury arose, and by building residences, purchasing residences, continuing to live in residences, in the subject area after being fully ...
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