Criticize a developer, get sued for racketeering: “A Los Angeles federal judge on Monday ordered a large law firm and two of its attorneys to pay $267,000 in sanctions for filing a ‘frivolous lawsuit’ against a community activist and three Forest Service employees who opposed a luxury condominium development on Big Bear Lake.” Lawyers from the San Diego office of Foley & Lardner, acting on behalf of developer Irving Okovita, had filed a racketeering lawsuit against Sandy Steers, executive director of the Friends of Fawnskin, and two Forest Service employees who had fought the developer’s Marina Point project, which they said would disrupt bald eagle habitat. U.S. District Judge Manuel Real threw out the suit and issued the sanctions, which Foley & Lardner says it will appeal. (Henry Weinstein, Los Angeles Times, Aug. 16; “Judge rules law firm must pay $267,000 for ‘frivolous’ lawsuit”, AP/CourtTV, Aug. 16)(more background).
“Law Firm Sanctioned for Forest Service Suit”
Criticize a developer, get sued for racketeering: “A Los Angeles federal judge on Monday ordered a large law firm and two of its attorneys to pay $267,000 in sanctions for filing a ‘frivolous lawsuit’ against a community activist and three Forest Service employees who opposed a luxury condominium development on Big Bear Lake.” Lawyers from […]
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