Feb. 12, 2026
Palisades Fire defendants' demurrers tentatively overruled
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge tentatively ruled that Palisades Fire plaintiffs adequately alleged dangerous conditions and infrastructure failures, allowing inverse condemnation claims against the city, its water and power utility and the state to move forward into discovery.
In a major development for the Palisades Fire litigation, Superior Court Judge Samantha Jessner issued a tentative ruling Wednesday partially overruling demurrers filed by the City of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and the State of California.
The plaintiffs alleged that the state and city knew a previous fire, believed to have been a transient, left dangerous, smoldering embers that later reignited into a conflagration that destroyed the neighborhood ...
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