UMK Partner Offers Insight on Los Angeles’ Delays in Addressing Homelessness

“In significant escalation of the legal conflict over Los Angeles’ homeless encampments, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter issued an order Friday summoning city leaders to a hearing to determine why they should not be held in contempt of court.

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Elizabeth A. Mitchell of Umhofer, Mitchel & King LLP, who represent the plaintiffs, celebrated the order in an email on Friday.

‘The special master’s and data monitor’s collective findings mirror our lived reality. The city hasn’t kept its word—and every attempt we’ve made the enforce the settlement has been met with delay and obfuscation. If that same energy went into solutions on the street, we’d all be safer and better off,’ Mitchell said.”