Hit and Miss, Enterprises, Inc. v. City of Long Beach

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

9 HIT & MISS, ENTERPRISES, INC., a CASE NO. 2:18-cv-09996-WLH-SSC California corporation; SAMI AMMARI, FINDINGS OF FACT AND

CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

Plaintiffs, FOLLOWING BENCH TRIAL;

v. ORDER

CITY OF LONG BEACH,

15 Defendant.

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Plaintiffs Hit & Miss Enterprises, Inc. and Sami Ammari (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) brought this action against Defendant City of Long Beach (“Defendant”) on October 23, 2018, in the Superior Court of California for the County of Los Angeles. (Notice of Removal, Docket No. 1). Plaintiffs alleged, in short, that Defendant violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments by seizing Plaintiffs’ trailers because they bore advertisements in apparent violation of § 10.18.050 and § 21.54.125 of the Long Beach Municipal Code; prosecuting Plaintiff Ammari under those ordinances; and refusing to provide Plaintiffs with post-impound hearings. (First Am. Compl. (“FAC”), Docket No. 18). In the…