Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in California

Municipalities - no due process?

A nearby city of Redding, CA has a city code prohibiting people to live in homes without power. If service is terminated for nonpayment, Redding Electric Utility notifies Bill Nagel in Building Code Enforcement and people are being tossed out left and right and their homes boarded up � owners, tenants, they don�t care. Nagel says they �pose an immediately dangerous condition� because they might use candles [which, evidently, are magically made safe if power�s on] and apartment dwellers are the worst due to adjoining walls to other households. Interviewed on the nightly news, Nagel said people in houses �get a little more due process since they�re not endangering the lives of others beyond their immediate family.'' A little more due process? Municipalities out-power [pardon the pun] Federal and State Constitutions?


Asked on 2/28/09, 5:04 pm

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Michael Stone Law Offices of Michael B. Stone Toll Free 1-855-USE-MIKE

Re: Municipalities - no due process?

I think this is a great civil rights lawsuit against the city and the power co., and a great unfair debt collection practices lawsuit against the power co. Too bad I don't live up there. Watch out for legal time limits.

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Answered on 2/28/09, 5:28 pm


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