Judge Bauer Imposes Fees Against City When Interest Group Obtains Reversal of the City’s Council Approval of a Freeway-Sign Exception Permit. In May 2008, Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald Bauer overturned the San Clemente City Council’s prior approval of a freeway sign exception permit for a proposed outlet mall project. The exception permit […]
Code of Civil Procedure sections 116.780 and 116.790 Provide Answers. Mike Hensley recently had to appear at a trial de novo of a small claims judgment won by a developer client. Small claims jurisdiction reaches disputes of either $5,000 or $7,500, depending on the type of case. When a losing litigant
Trial Judge Held That Lender Lost Any Right to Deficiency So That There Was No Obligation In Existence for Offsetting Purposes. For several years culminating in a trial in late 2002, Mike Hensley represented borrowers in a judicial foreclosure action brought by an out-of-state lender seeking to obtain the collateral real
Defendants in Real Estate Concealment Case Win at Arbitration and Get Partial Recoupment of Attorneys Fees. At a month trial in Orange County Superior Court, two individual clients of Mike Hensley suffered an adverse jury award of about $285,000. The clients sold their prior San Juan Capistrano house to plaintiff buyers,
Gregory P. Regier, a colleague of Mike Hensley when he was at Jackson DeMarco Tidus & Peckenpaugh, and Mike won a case for citrus farming clients in Ventura County who were flooded by their neighboring farmers when the neighbors notched a watercourse on their property, resulting in various property damages
