#OnThisDate in 2012, in Lavan v. City of Los Angeles, 693 F.3d 1022, the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction that prohibited Los Angeles from summarily destroyin…

#OnThisDate in 2011, Lavan v. City of Los Angeles was filed in the federal court for the Central District of California, Western Division, for a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, and permanent injunction, prohibiting the defendants from seizing and destroying plaintiffs' property during encampment sweeps and threatening them with arrest; a declaratory judgment that the City’s policies, practices and conduct violate Plaintiffs’ rights under the federal and state Constitution and state laws; an order certifying the plaintiff class; …