Wednesday, March 3. Here’s what’s happening with the coronavirus in California and beyond.
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When the coronavirus began spreading in earnest last March, states issued stay-at-home orders and asked residents to stay inside, avoid large crowds and regularly wash their hands. If they were exposed to or infected with the coronavirus, they needed to quarantine or isolate in their homes immediately.
“The home is the center of life. It is a refuge from the grind of work, the pressure of school, and the menace of the streets.
We say that at home, we can ‘be ourselves.’ Everywhere else, we are someone else. At home, we remove our masks.”
From Matthew Desmond’s 2016 book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.
In their mid-pandemic search for a three-bedroom home, Denise and Greg Townsend found rental listings for three apartments that appealed to them. Located in their longtime community of Santa Monica, all three apartments featured rents low enough so that the math penciled out with the Townsends’ budget and Section 8 housing voucher.
James McAdams, an attorney and member of the California Bar since 1975, passed away on June 4, 2020. Jim was known for his groundbreaking work in maritime personal injury litigation and worker’s compensation claims. Several of the appeals handled by […]
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A number of public interest attorneys filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to halt in-person traffic and eviction trials held in Los Angeles County, claiming COVID-19 prevention protocols are failing after two court interpreters who were infected died in recent weeks.
The suit, brought by Public Counsel,the Inner City Law Center,Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
and Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, accuses the courts of prioritizing the “continuity of nonessential operations over community safety and human life.”
“The court’s facilities are built and administered in a way that makes it impossible to maintain a safe social distance of six feet or more, particularly within crowded and poorly ventilated courtrooms and hallways. Every day, hundreds of Angelenos crowd into the county’s courthouses to enter pleas on traffic tickets or defend against eviction lawsuits,” the suit read. “Public health experts have determined that not only are these cond