The 350 tiny farm plots were due to be kicked off their 14-acre patch of green by COB Monday, after they lost a court fight against the landowner, but they quickly filed something with the sheriff that kicked the whole affair into yet another court hearing.
Here are the details:
Last Friday and today, several tenants of the 41st and Alameda farm site filed a form at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department claiming a right of possession to the property. Today, these tenants submitted the form they filed with the Sheriff’s Department to the Los Angeles Superior Court. The Court scheduled a hearing on March 13, 2006, to decide the tenants’ claim that they have a right to be in possession of the property. Filing the claim of right to possession means that evictions should not take place until at least March 13, 2006.
Landowner Ralph Horowitz - who reportedly plans to build a Wal-Mart servicing warehouse on his land - sued the farmers a couple weeks ago for $729,745.72, alleging they "have used the injunction to usurp physical control of the Property from the Foodbank and Horowitz, including threats of violence and changing the locks."
