Llanusa’s legal entries are extending to include cusd

by Andrew Alonzo | [email protected]

The legal entries of the former Claremont unified school district The Education Council President Steven Llanusa arising from a December 3, 2022 holiday party At Claraboya’s house he continues to make his way through the courts.

Llanusa resigned from the Cusd Council on December 10, 2022, setting in motion a chain of events that led to a Expensive special choices to fill his chair. On February 9, 2023, Llanusa has been charged With two offenses of contribution offenses to the delinquency of a minor and an accusation of offense to provide alcohol to a minor under 21.

Tandy Robinson and Blake Taylor White were also charged on the same day of their alleged party actions. White has been accused of two charges of lewd or lascivious acts with a minor age of 14 or 15 years in which the defendant is 10 years older than the victim and four offenses to annoy or molesta under 18 years; Robinson was accused of a number of alcohol supply offenses under 21 years.

All three Has hired not guilty At all the accusations of April 27, 2023 at the Superior Court Pomona.

Later, Los Angeles’s District Lawyer Office offered Llanusa informal diversion, which, according to American Bar Association“It refers to any opportunity for a person to avoid arrest, to refuse or to reduce the accusations, to avoid a conviction or to reduce a punishment, by fulfilling a set of prescribed conditions, by providing a notification to services or by receiving assistance or issuing without criminal consequences.”

On September 18, 2024, the judge of the Superior Court, Victor Martinez, granted Llanusa the diversion plan. It included the completion of a program to prevent abuses on children of one year and 100 hours of community service. Llanusa delivered the progress reports of the diversion plan in November 2024 and January 2025.

The DA office also offered Robinson Informal Diversion, which Martinez granted in September 2024. Robinson’s lawyer in this regard, G. Christopher Gardner from Michael A. Scafiddi Inc.’s law officesHe wrote in a text that the criminal case of his client will be rejected without admitting the crimes and will not appear in his record until the end of an individual counseling year, a program to prevent abuses on children and 60 hours of community service. Robinson gave the instance progress reports in November 2024 and January 2025.

In April 2024, White concluded a plea agreement, under which he did not commit any competitions to two charges of offenses to annoy or to molest a child under 18 years. He was sentenced to one year of probation, ordered to register as a sexual offender, to register for a one -year sex offender’s counseling program, to complete 20 days of Community work, to refund to the victim and to pay various fines and judicial fees. He appeared in court for progress reports in November 2024 and January 2025.

Lawyers representing Llanusa and White did not respond to repeated comments.

Llanusa, Robinson and White are about to appear at the Superior Court Pomona 1 for progress report hearings.

Llanusa and Robinson are going to return to the Pomona Court, on September 18, either for a hearing for termination/dismissal of the diversion or for a preventive conference. Both defendants still reserve the right to take the case to the trial.

Lozano v. Cusd et al.

In a separate but related problem, on December 22, 2023, lawyers representing Lily Sophia Lozano lodged a civil complaint at the Superior Court. Lozano counted among the members of the Claremont High School choir, who participated in the December 2022 holiday party, according to the complaint.

Lozano v. Cusd et al., Asks for a jury to be heard by a jury and listed CUSD, Llanusa, Robinson, White and the former director of Chs, Joel Wilson, as defendants.

A common report submitted to the Court of Lawyers representing Lozano, Cusd and Robinson on December 6, 2024 offers a summary:

“On December 3, 2022, while the applicant Lily Sophia Lozano was a student at Claremont High School, the school choir was invited to perform a holiday party at the private residence of the defendant Steven Llanusa,” he read. “The plaintiff claims that, while she and her colores were at Mr. Llanusa’s house, waiting to make a show, they were offered alcoholic beverages and also exposed to verbal sexual Innuendo by” male naked. ” The applicant tries to make the school district responsible for his negligent training and/or supervision of Mr. Llanusa, who was a chosen member of the school council at the time of the event.

Conformable Institute of Legal Information of Cornell School of LawThe Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12 (B) (6) allows a rejection motion “for non -compliance with the complaint to assert a request on which exemption can be granted”.

In the civil complaint, Lozano accuses Llanusa, Robinson and Wilson about negligence, battery, sexual battery and Gender violence (on California code § 52.4) White, mentioned in the complaint as a “stripper”, is also accused of battery, sexual battery and gender violence.

Llanusa, Robinson, Wilson and Cusd are accused of negligent negligence/supervision, negligence/negligent employment, training and/or restraint, violation of compulsory reporting of children, public entity for non -observance of the obligatory obligation and conspiracy.

The complaint also accuses cush, Llanusa and Wilson of false prison; and illegal confiscation, a violation of 42 the United States Code §1983. Cusd and Llanusa are also accused of violating Lozano’s civil rights in accordance with municipal liability, on MONELL v. Department of Social Services.

Finally, Llanusa, Robinson, Wilson, White and Cush are accused of intentional inflicting the emotional suffering and the negligent influence of emotional suffering.

Lozano’s lawyers – Mark Bloom, Martin Kanarek, Mathew Russell and Olivier Taill BD & J lawyers for injury – He did not respond to comment requests.

The damages requested by Lozano will be determined at the trial, according to the complaint, the most recent disclosure of Lozano’s lawyers and the legal adviser of the CUSD, Daniel Modafferi from FOZI DWORK & MODAFFERE, LLP.

“I don’t have many things I can say in this regard just because it is still in active disputes,” said Modaffer.

On August 29, 2024, the legal adviser of the CUDD submitted a Notification of removing civil actionAfter that Lozano’s complaint was transferred from the system of the upper court in Los Angeles County to the central district of the Central Court in the United States, a federal jurisdiction. The motion was filed as two of the accusations made in the complaint regarding federal legislation.

“The applicant Lily Sophia Lozano supports causes of action in accordance with the state and federal legislation,” reads the removal notice from the legal lawyer of the CEFD. “The thirteenth cause of action (illegal confiscation) supports violations of the applicant’s rights under the fourth amendment to the Federal Constitution, according to 42 USC 1983 sections. Monell (v. Department of Social Services) This court has the initial competence of the action in accordance with the provisions 28 USC section 1331Therefore the action can be eliminated by the Claremont unified school district, in accordance with 28 SECTION USC 1441. The remaining action causes appear from the same nucleus of the operative facts that the applicant’s federal legislation supports. (28 USC § 1367.) ”

Cusd’s lawyer filed a Motion to reject complaint On October 7, 2024. Robinson’s lawyers For Lozano v. Cusd, et al – Jody Steinberg and Nicholas Walls of Hanger Steinberg Shapiro & Ash – The trial followed on October 18, 2024. The Court has not yet pronounced on both motions, according to Moderferi.

According to the language in the common report of December 6, 2024, both CUDD and Robinson state that they are not responsible for potential damages.

“Cusd and his employees are statutory immunes in the state’s legislation, according to Education Code, Section 35330Subdivision (D), which stipulates that any person who participates in a field trip or a trip is considered to have given up all the claims against the school district for the wounds that appeared during or due to the field trip or the trip, ”the report read. “Moreover, in law, the CEE is not subject to responsibility in accordance with 42 USC sections 1983, because the California public school district are state agencies and not” persons “.

“Tandy Robinson claims that she is not employed or affiliated otherwise at the school district, nor does she have the property or control of the property or” party “and has not employed or did not employ” stripper “and, as such

A status conference in Lozano v. Cusd, et. Al, is set for 9 in the morning at the Pomona Superior Court. One last preventive conference with Judge Monica Ramirez Almadani is scheduled for October 16 at the Federal Court in the center of Los Angeles.

“But there are probably other motion hearings, only according to the court’s decision in the motion that is currently rejection,” said Modaffer.

The judicial documents related to Lozano v. Cusd et al.

Llanusa files-cross-barking

In the more connected legal fight, in November 2024 Llanusa, through his lawyers Linda Bauermeister and Robert Kostrich from Barber & Bauermeisterfiled a civil complaint against Robinson looking for “compensation, contribution, proy, declarative exemption, (and) Civil Code §1431”, Which refers to the common liability.

Robinson’s lawyer would not comment on Llanusa’s cross complaint.

Bauermeister did not respond to repeated investigations about Lozano v.

White and Wilson’s lawyers were not appointed in the court documents.