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Appeal sought As promised, attorneys for the city have asked the state Supreme Court to dismiss an oil company’s $500 million breach-of-contract lawsuit. The city attorneys have filed a petition for a hearing before the high court, at which they would ask justices to partially overturn a recent ruling by a state appeals court. City Attorney Michael Jenkins has said only 5 percent of such requests win a hearing before the Supreme Court. If the city is rejected, the case would be sent back to a lower court to determine whether the city acted legally when it canceled a contract held by Macpherson Oil Company for a drilling project on city land. The oil company planned to slant-drill under the Pacific Ocean from land at Valley Drive and Sixth Street, until Hermosa voters weighed in against the project and an earlier City Council declared the contract canceled, touching off a 12-year lawsuit. If the Supreme Court leaves the appeals court ruling intact, the city would try to convince a jury that the drilling project was too risky to nearby residents to be allowed. Armed holdup Two men in a pickup truck with tinted windows brandished a handgun in the area of 34th Street and Manhattan…
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