COURT RULING – Attempt to halt Bruce’s Beach land transfer rejected
by Mark McDermott A legal attempt to block the land transfer at Bruce’s Beach was rejected this week by a Superior Court judge who ruled that returning the land to descendents of the Bruce family does not constitute a gift of public funds. Joseph Ryan, an attorney from Palos Verdes Estates, filed a complaint with the court in November seeking an injunction against the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Ryan argued the land transfer does not serve a public purpose and the state law recently enacted to enable it, S.B. 796, is therefore unconstitutional under California law. The Bruce family joined the County in defending against the lawsuit. Judge Mitchell Beckloff, in a ruling issued April 14, rejected Ryan’s argument, paving the way for the land transfer. The Bruce’s are expected to take ownership of the land within months. The judge wrote that redressing a past governent wrong in order to remedy racial discrimination serves a public purpose. “Righting a government wrong perpetrated in breach of our core and fundamental constitutional principles works to strengthen governmental integrity, represents accountability in government and works to eliminate structural racism and…
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