“Friends and Families for MOVE Culver City” intends to appeal the Los Angeles Superior Court’s recent ruling in favor of the City in a legal challenge to the City’s modification of the MOVE Culver City Pilot Project. Legal counsel for the organization sent a letter to the City Council on August 26th, 2024, notifying the City Council that it “intends to appeal the Court’s decision and judgement in Superior Court Case No. 23STCP03833, and Friends and Family for MOVE Culver City intends to take all necessary actions to preserve the status quo pending an opinion from the Court of Appeal.” The letter states that “Friends and Families for MOVE Culver City continues to object to the City’s decisions to move forward with modifications to the MOVE Culver City Project.”
“Friends and Families for MOVE Culver City” filed a lawsuit in October 2023 challenging the legality of the City’s approved modifications to the MOVE Culver City Downtown Corridor pilot project. At the September 11th, 2023 meeting, the City Council voted 3-2 to ratify plans to modify the MOVE Culver City pilot project, and found the modified project exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to two CEQA exemptions. The lawsuit brought by Friends and Families for MOVE Culver City alleged the City of Culver City and City Council violated CEQA by finding the Raaj Shankla commented ‘hope that “Friends and Families for MOVE Culver City’ including the two city council candidates who donated to this frivolous lawsuit are held liable for the high legals costs incurred by the city.”
Another speaker commented that The City deserves to be reimbursed for this frivolous lawsuit. And whatever additional costs of this appeal.