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Litigation

Jul. 21, 2009

Run-Down Apartment Building Tenants Reach Record Settlement

Fifteen families will receive more than $4.5 million to settle a three-year-old habitability suit against the current and former landlords of a Los Angeles apartment building who allowed the property to fall into egregious disrepair.

By Amanda Becker
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - Fifteen families will receive more than $4.5 million to settle a three-year-old habitability suit against the current and former landlords of an apartment building who allowed the property to fall into egregious disrepair. Attorneys who represented the 47 plaintiffs described the award, which was reached during mediation, as one of the highest amounts awarded to individual plaintiffs who brought a ...

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