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Litigation

Mar. 29, 2005

City Loses in Court After Chopping Hedge

After four years of quarreling with local resident Philip J. Feiner Jr.'s "willful defiance" over the height of the hedge in his front yard, the city of American Canyon had enough.

By Eron Ben-Yehuda
        After four years of quarreling with local resident Philip J. Feiner Jr.'s "willful defiance" over the height of the hedge in his front yard, the city of American Canyon had enough.
        That's the phrase used by a code enforcement officer in a Sept. 11, 2003, memo to other city officials of the town in south Napa Count...

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