Please complete the required sections below for this case brief (starting with Facts).

Case can be found at: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1771504.html

Citation:

• (People v. Landlords Professional Services(1989) 215 Cal.App.3d 1599 [264 Cal.Rptr. 548].)

Parties:

• The People, Plaintiff and Respondent
• Landlords Professional Services, Defendant and Appellant
• W. Dozorsky, Attorney, for defendant and appellant
• Cecil Hicks, Dist. Atty., Michael R. Capizzi, Chief Asst. Dist. Atty., Maurice L. Evans, Asst. Dist. Atty., Thomas M. Goethals and Theodore A. Johnson, Deputy Dist. Attys., for plaintiff and respondent

?? Facts: (Need help answering a. and b. below)

1. Key Facts:

The key facts are those facts in the opinion to which the law applies and that are essential to the decision reached by the court. They are those facts upon which the outcome of the case is determined.

1. Background Facts:

• Background facts are those facts that put the key facts in context. They are facts necessary to make sense of the story and thereby provide the reader with an overall context within which the key facts occur, an overall picture of the events of the case.

?? Procedural History: (need help answering 1-6 below)

• The Procedural History should include:

1. party initiating the proceeding and the cause of actions.
2. The court before which the proceeding was initiated
3. The result of the proceeding
4. the party appealing and what is being appealed
5. the disposition of the case by the court that issued the opinion. Disposition includes the relief granted by the court, which is the order entered by the court.
6. This section is usually located at the very end of the opinion. If the opinion was appealed to higher court that should be noted in the procedural history section to remind anyone reading the brief

?? Issues: (need help with writing the issue as described below)

• The issues is the legal question addressed and answered by the court. It is the precises legal question raised by the specific facts of the case. The issues should be stated as a narrowly and concisely as possible in the context of the facts of the case. A court opinion may address several issues. Identify each issues separately.

?? Holding: (need help with writing the holding as described below)

• The holding is the court's resolution of the issue. It is the decision of the court, the answer to the issue.

?? Reasoning: (need help with writing the holding as described below)

• Usually the largest part of an opinion is the court's presentation of the reasoning in support of the holding. Just as for each issue there is a holding, for each holding there should be reasons explaining why the holding was reached.