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Mar. 27, 2019

Municipal Law

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Writing the legal blueprint for cities as it relates to sober-living homes

Municipal Law
Nahal Kazemi, Jennifer L. Keller, Chase A. Scolnick, Michael A. Schachter and Anand Sambhwani of Keller/Anderle LLP

In defeating a lawsuit over Costa Mesa's ordinance regarding sober-living homes, Keller/Anderle LLP attorneys argued the city was helping addicts by regulating businesses that sought to exploit them. And by persuading jurors to uphold it, Jennifer L. Keller and Chase A. Scolnick wrote a legal blueprint for other cities faced with the same dangerous conditions that neighbors say plagued the homes in Costa Mesa.

"The ordinance di...

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