Monthly Archives: May 2011

Property manager of hippie-anarchist collective in Sebastopol can, unfortunately, verify eviction complaint

OK, I’m representing a tenant in a case – she’s being evicted from an ‘Anarchist Bed&Breakfast and Retreat Centre’, which is being represented by Chuck Jensen, always a fun fight! – there are so many screwed up and interesting things about this case – and all will be detailed in subsequent posts … but here is actually quite a boring issue – verification of the complaint. So, in unlawful detainers, there is a requirement that the complaint be “verified” – a statement under penalty of perjury that the allegations are within the plaintiff’s personal knowledge. Now this sounds like a …Read more »

California Victims Rights Links

Here are a couple of links to information on California’s Victims’ Rights laws. Former Sonoma County district attorney Mike Mullins gave a presentation to the Sonoma County Bar Association on civil restitution in criminal cases. Here’s an article on his presentation in Santa Rosa last week. The National Crime Victim Law Institute has all the relevant law on California victims rights. And McGeorge Law School’s 1800victims.org hosts this list of Sonoma County resources for crime victims.

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