For years, Oakland has treated small property owners as a piggy bank, demanding ever growing penalties for minor, alleged building code violations and denying property owners any legitimate opportunity to defend themselves. But thanks to a PLF victory in the California Court of Appeal, that abuse will come to an end. Things got so ba ...
In 2010, the Alameda County Grand Jury sharply condemned Oakland's Building Services Division -- which enforces building code violations -- concluding that it had created an "atmosphere of hostility and intimidation towards property owners." In the four years since, little has changed. PLF has filed an opening brief in the California Court of A ...