LiMandri & Jonna LLP is proud to announce that the Fourth Appellate District has upheld in full their win in favor of their clients A&B Market Plus, Inc. and others against the Neighborhood Market Association and its former President Mark Arabo. The Neighborhood Market Association is a trade association that lobbies on behalf of small grocery and convenience stores in Southern California and nationally. After two years of lengthy litigation, which included a five-week bench trial, in January 2018, A&B Market Plus and other member stores obtained a judgment in their favor finding that former President Mark…

SAN DIEGO, Calif.—LiMandri & Jonna LLP is pleased to announce the resolution of an administrative appeal regarding whether the Free Sacred Trinity Church, a local Christian church, can obtain a California property tax exemption for its San Diego campus. Free Sacred Trinity Church is the “Mother Church” of a Christian denomination, founded in 1976, and presently consisting of two subsidiary “Mission” facilities based in San Diego, California and Austin, Texas. All nonprofits, including churches, are generally exempt from federal taxation under 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3). But whether nonprofits and churches have to pay local property taxes is…

San Pasqual Academy Residents, Alumni & Staff Sue California for Trying to Shut it Down Attorneys at LiMandri & Jonna LLP Working to Save Highly Successful Foster Care Program View the Complaint here. Contact: Tom Ciesielka, 312.422.1333, tc@tcpr.net (August 3, 2021 – Escondido, CA) San Pasqual Academy stakeholders—residents, alumni, and staff—have sued the County of San Diego Health & Human Services Agency and the California Department of Social Services for trying to unlawfully shut down the nationally preeminent boarding school for high-school foster youth. San Pasqual Academy is a highly successful foster care program in Escondido, California,…

Attorney Charles LiMandri has been honored as one of the “2021 Top 100 Lawyers in California” by the Los Angeles Daily Journal. The Daily Journal, a California legal-industry newspaper, recognizes lawyers for their performance of cutting-edge legal work. The “2021 Top 100 Lawyers in California” list is published each year by the editors of the Daily Journal to shine the spotlight on attorneys making an impact in the California legal profession and honor lawyers “whose legal work changed the law, an industry or society in the last year.” Daily Journal editors reviewed hundreds of submissions to produce…

Camp Lejeune Toxic Water Cases If You Lived at Camp Lejeune, You May Be Entitled to Significant Compensation On August 11, 2022, President Biden signed into law the “Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022” (CLJA). This legislation allows veterans, service members, and their families who lived and worked at Camp Lejeune to sue the federal government for a limited time and recover damages for injury and wrongful death due to toxic water contamination exposure. Individuals who resided, worked, or have been otherwise exposed (including in utero) to the water at Camp Lejeune for 30 days or more…

Charles S. LiMandri and Paul M. Jonna discuss the issue of health clubs failing to use an automated external defibrillator that is mandated by California. Click here to read full article.

LiMandri & Jonna SLAPPs New Case out of Court The day after Christmas 2017, a Catholic cleric filed suit against LiMandri & Jonna’s client, a local Catholic church. The cleric alleged breach of contract with respect to loans he allegedly made to the church, loss of retirement benefits, and defamation after the church hierarchs published letters informing their parishioners that the cleric could no longer validly administer the sacraments in San Diego. LiMandri & Jonna immediately filed an anti-SLAPP special motion to strike the defamation claim and moved to dismiss the retirement benefits claim—based on well settled…

LiMandri & Jonna Saves Cherished San Diego Historical Institution In late 2017, two founders of the San Diego Chinese Historical Society and Museum, a nonprofit that runs the Chinese museum located on Third Avenue in downtown San Diego, filed a derivative action to save the museum after they began discovering potential mismanagement by the current board of directors. The two founders discovered that board members were continuing to sit on the board long past the three term limit, that important issues had not been put to a general membership vote for many years, that the board was…