Feb. 13, 2026
LA suffers terminating sanctions in homeless cleanup case
A federal judge found Los Angeles altered and fabricated sanitation records in a homeless encampment lawsuit, issuing terminating sanctions on liability and citing willful misconduct and bad faith.
A federal judge found the City of Los Angeles altered, fabricated and failed to produce key sanitation records and violated discovery orders in a years-long lawsuit over its homeless encampment cleanup practices.
The plaintiffs prevailed on a terminating sanctions motion that accused the city of spoliation of evidence and discovery abuses.
In an order late Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer found the record showed willful misconduct serious enough to justify e...
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