Crouching Claimant, Hidden SSA
While updating links at the Federal Government and Disability Law pages, we ran across a few changes at the SSA’s Program Policy Information Site, with a new link to the Program Operations Manual System (POMS), and something we hadn’t noticed…
Training for transitional housing providers
The Fair Housing Hotline Project is providing a free training on the Transitional Housing Misconduct Act and fair housing and other landlord/tenant laws for transitional housing providers on October 27, 2004 in Sacramento. This training is cosponsored by the Northern/Central…
Easy FOIA to say
Over at the Federal Government page, in addition to the basic Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) section at the U.S. Department of Justice site (which has long included a list of principal FOIA contacts at other federal agencieis), we’ve added…
“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”
That’s a famous quote from Charles Lamb. And for the lawyers out there, here’s a non sequitur: For some reason, government websites seem compelled to create websites for kids, most prominently FirstGov for Kids. Some of our favorites: FEMA offers…
Peretz v. Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, No. BV 024997 (Cal. App. Supp. Aug. 4, 2004), 2004 W.L. 2092317
A program funded by the Legal Services Corporation may recover attorneys’ fees awarded pursuant to a lease agreement without running afoul of LSC regulations, the Appellate Division of the L.A. Superior Court has held. The court affirmed a $1,860 fee…
Dieckmeyer v. Redevelopment Agency of Huntington Beach, No. G031869, 118 Cal.App.4th 1136 (2004), review granted and transferred, No. S126035.
When a city loans money to a homeowner as part of an affordable housing program, the homeowner may prepay the loan without penalty, but a 30-year affordability covenant remains in effect, the Court of Appeal has held. However, because the…
Homes on Wheels v. City of Santa Barbara, No. B169316, 119 Cal.App.4th 1173 (2004)
Wise lawyering turned what could have been an opinion on the rights of the homeless to live in Santa Barbara into a dissertation on the Vehicle Code. The end result was a ruling which permits the homeless and others to…
Tom v. City and County of San Francisco, No. A 101950, 120 Cal.App.4th 674 (2004)
Tenants in common have the right to agree to keep out of each other’s bathrooms and bedrooms, even if the end result is loss of rental units, the Court of Appeal has held. To discourage the practice of moderate income…
If it’s Tuesday, this must be Norway
Okay, today is actually Wednesday, but the truth is that Brenda Thomas is in Norway, which means subscribers to Cases @ LSNCWeb will not get any new e-mail case summaries until she returns in early October. In the interim, you…
Ventura Mobilehome Communities Owners Association v City of San Buenaventura, 371 F.3d 1046 (9th Cir. 2004)
Claims that a city’s mobilehome rent control ordinance is unconstitutional are not ripe until remedies in state court have been exhausted, the Ninth Circuit has held. The Court of Appeals did permit the plaintiff to dismiss its state law claims…
