Legal Opinion
Joannou v. City of Rancho Palos Verdes
California Court of Appeal
Decided September 12, 2013No. B241035PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
RUBIN, J.
Plaintiffs Andrea Joannou and 25 Oak, LLC, appeal from the summary judgment entered in favor of defendant City of Rancho Palos Verdes (City) in their action to apply the Cullen Earthquake Act (Code Civ. Proc., § 751.50 et seq.) to quiet title in them to city-owned land where homes they bought were deposited over the course of many years by a slow-moving landslide. We affirm because the Cullen Earthquake Act does not apply to lot line displacements resulting from ongoing and gradual earth movements.
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