Gong v. City of Rosemead

Opinion

MINK, J. *

Appellants Tammy Gong (Gong) and L&G Rosemead Garden LLC (L&G) (Gong and L&G are jointly referred to as “appellants”) seek to impose liability on the City of Rosemead (the City) for the alleged tortious conduct of John Tran (Tran), a former member of its city council and former mayor of the City. Appellants allege that while L&G’s proposed real estate project was proceeding through the City’s approval process, Tran, the City’s mayor, “extracted” $38,000 in “loans” from Gong, refused to repay her, and then set about a retaliatory course of conduct to prevent the approval of…