COMUNIDAD EN ACCION v. LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL

No. B240554.

219 Cal.App.4th 1116 (2013)

162 Cal. Rptr. 3d 423

COMUNIDAD EN ACCION, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL et al., Defendants and Respondents; WASTE MANAGEMENT RECYCLING AND DISPOSAL SERVICES OF CALIFORNIA, INC., Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Eight.

September 20, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neighborhood Legal Services, David Pallack , Alexander Prieto ; Western Center on Law and Poverty, Richard Rothschild and R. Mona Tawatao for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic and Sean B. Hecht for a Better Environment, Natural Resources Defense Council and Equal Justice Society as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Carmen A. Trutanich , City Attorney, and Timothy McWilliams , Deputy City Attorney, for Defendants and Respondents.

Armbruster Goldsmith & Delvac and R.J. Comer for Real Party in Interest and Respondent.


OPINION

FLIER, J.

This lawsuit concerns a community organization's — Comunidad en Accion (Comunidad) — challenge under the antidiscrimination statute in Government Code section 11135 (section 11135) to the City of Los Angeles's (City) siting of waste facilities in Sun Valley. We affirm the summary adjudication of the section 11135 claim because Comunidad failed to...

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