JENKINS v. CORONA
Filed 5/10/06; pub. order 6/9/06 (see end of opn.)2
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT
DIVISION TWO
| GEORGE JENKINS, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. CITY OF CORONA et al., Defendants and Appellants. | E036270 (Super.Ct.No. RIC359371) OPINION |
APPEAL from the Superior Court of Riverside County. Erik Michael Kaiser, Judge. Reversed.
Best, Best & Krieger, Jeffrey V. Dunn, Mark D. Servino, and Marc S. Ehrlich, for Defendant and Appellant City of Corona.
Law Office of Brent & Klein and Jason G. Brent, for Plaintiff and Appellant George C. Jenkins.
Defendants and Appellants City of Corona (City), the members of the City Council of the City, Karen E. Stein, Janice L. Rudman, Darrell Talbert, Jeff Miller, Jeffrey P. Bennett, and Keith Clark, the building officer of the City (collectively, defendants) appeal from a judgment entered in favor of Plaintiff and Appellant George C. Jenkins (Jenkins), and from the trial court's denial of their motion to vacate the judgment. Jenkins cross-appeals from the same judgment, from various rulings made by the trial court during the trial, and from the court's denial of his motion for attorney fees under Code of Civil Procedure section 1021.5. For the reasons set forth below, we shall reverse the judgment.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
On May 31, 2001, plaintiffs The Paladin Fair Housing Coalition, Inc., dba â€
