The California Court of Appeal recently reversed a verdict awarding the plaintiff $1 million in compensatory damages in Jumaane v. City of Los Angeles, 241 Cal. App. 4th 1390 (2015). Plaintiff, Jabari Jumaane, sued the City of Los Angeles for…
In Rony v. Costa, 210 Cal. App. 4th 746 (2012), Paolo Costa hired an unlicensed day laborer to remove tree limbs from his neighbor’s Monterey cypress that were overhanging onto his property. While property owners are generally permitted to cut…
