Tag Archives: First Street Federal Courthouse

Cory Spencer v. Lunada Bay Boys

Lunada Bay Boys Tell Federal Court “We Don’t Even Exist So How Can They Sue Us??!” — Defendants’ Oppositions To Motion For Class Certification Filed In Palos Verdes Estates Surf Localism Thuggery Case

Leave a comment
Looming reality in the form of the 1st Street Federal Courthouse as seen from the shores of Lunada Bay. Is it getting closer? Is it just an illusion? We will find out on February 21, 2017 at 10 a.m.!
See here for yesterday’s post on this matter and if you need background take a look at this excellent article from the Times on the suit.

Well, just one day after I decided to add Cory Spencer v. Lunada Bay Boys to my PACER watchlist, an avalanche of opposition to the plaintiffs’ motion to have the thing turned into a class action suit hit the RSS feed. It’s all pretty interesting, and I have uploaded it all to the Archive.Org page that I made yesterday to host all this stuff on. There is a list of new items with links after the break, but the common theme of many of them, as exemplified in the Objection to Plaintiffs’ Evidence in Support of Motion for Class Certification, a 112 page behemoth with which most if not all of the individual defendants seem to have joined in, seems to go something like this:

  1. There is no such thing as the Lunada Bay Boys.
  2. But if there is such a thing as the Lunada Bay Boys, none of the defendants are members of it.
  3. But if some or all of the defendants are members of it, they didn’t do any of the stuff alleged in the complaint.
  4. But if they did do some or all of the stuff alleged in the complaint, they didn’t do it to the plaintiffs.
  5. But if they did do it to the plaintiffs, there wasn’t really any cognizable damage.
  6. But if there was cognizable damage, it’s not really possible to figure out who was damaged.

The City of Palos Verdes Estates (PVE) along with their Chief of Police take a slightly different tack in e.g. their opposition to the motion for class certification. Their theory seems to be that since one plaintiff said something nice about the PVE cops in 2016, they must be innocent all the way back to 1966. Perhaps that even makes sense (?!)

In any case, the hearing on this is scheduled for Tuesday, February 21, 2017 in the brand new shiny beautiful 1st Street Courthouse in Courtroom 10C. Perhaps I’ll see you there. As mentioned above, turn the page for a list of links to newly filed items.1 Continue reading Lunada Bay Boys Tell Federal Court “We Don’t Even Exist So How Can They Sue Us??!” — Defendants’ Oppositions To Motion For Class Certification Filed In Palos Verdes Estates Surf Localism Thuggery Case →

Share