Lomita, Judge Grants Our Client's Order Versus Neighbor

Our clients, a young couple in their twenties, owned a condominium in Lomita above a man who filed a restraining order against our clients.

Synopsis: Lomita, Torrance judge grants our clients’ restraining order, denies neighbor’s reciprocal order.

The downstairs neighbor was unemployed and very sensitive to any noise from above. When he would hear any noise, he would yell in a rage at the top of his lungs and poke a broom handle at the ceiling separating his unit from our clients’ unit. Our clients did their best to decrease noise to a minimum by always taking off their shoes before entering their condominium, putting down extra rugs and even using earphones to listen to the television.
Our clients were at the point of seeking their own restraining order against their neighbor when the neighbor beat them to the courthouse. Our clients then came to Greg Hill & Associates for help.

Greg Hill interviewed the clients and then the former landlord of the downstairs neighbor, who told us she had evicted the tall man due to a similar pattern. When she regained possession of the unit, she found the ceiling full of holes from a broom handle. Greg Hill gathered a declaration from this former landlord. He then prepared a reciprocal petition for a restraining order against the violent neighbor and a ten page brief in opposition to the request for a restraining order sought by the neighbor downstairs.

Included in the brief were declarations from each of our clients about their efforts to minimize the noise and luckily, postings that our client discovered from the downstairs neighbor who used his real name to seek information in chat rooms about how to harass a neighbor to force a move. In the posting, the tall neighbor seemed obsessed with noise and made racial comments.

Torrance Courthouse

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