Evictions

The city of Los Angeles is considering suing owners of several apartment buildings who want to evict low-income tenants and stop accepting rent subsidies from the federal government. The 237 apartments are in South Los Angeles, Sun Valley and Venice. Affordable-housing advocates say the property owners broke state and federal laws by not giving tenants proper notice of the evictions.

Eviction notices were served on two high-profile members of a polygamist church in Colorado City -- the latest move by a court-appointed accountant to get members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to comply with state laws.

Bosnian federation police have evicted dozens of people, mainly Serbs, from former Yugoslav federal army apartments, violating principles of human rights and commitments to a reunified, multi-ethnic state, the U.N. said. Most of the apartments are in parts of Sarajevo--the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina--that reverted to Bosnian government control under the 1995 peace treaty.

A county Superior Court judge Thursday lifted the temporary restraining order preventing the city from evicting an elderly inventor from his workshop. The city has plans to develop the site, which is part of a 50-acre downtown redevelopment project. Superior Court Judge Robert C. Todd lifted the order, which was issued May 7 by Commissioner Eleanor M. Palk. It had barred the city from evicting 73-year-old Michael Kunec.

The owners of Lucy Florence Coffee House were served eviction notices Tuesday after a judge ruled against them in a lawsuit brought by their landlord. The coffeehouse, restaurant and theater owned by Richard and Ron Harris in a complex on Degnan Boulevard were part of a push to redevelop Leimert Park's African American arts scene after the 1992 riots. A suit filed by Community Build Inc. claimed the brothers didn't pay rent or maintain insurance.

Mounting publicity helped a group of monks delay a Wednesday deadline for eviction from a monastery near Jerusalem, but the Franciscan owners said they were still determined to evict them. After a long-running legal battle, the six Greek Melkite Catholic monks were told that bailiffs would force them to leave the Monastery of St. John in the Desert on Wednesday morning. But they appeared to have won a temporary reprieve. "The bailiff himself telephoned us.

The operator of the Studio City carwash that has been the focus of an unsuccessful campaign to name it a Los Angeles cultural monument received an eviction notice Tuesday from a developer who plans to tear it down to make room for a mini-mall. The 28-year-old carwash and an adjoining Unocal gas station must shut down Sept. 1. After Unocal removes underground gasoline tanks and checks for pollution, the site will be turned over Oct.

Police used bulldozers to break down burning barricades and smashed through the roof of a stately home Monday to evict the last band of squatters occupying premises in central Amsterdam. No arrests were made and the 300 squatters, many wearing helmets and shouting revolutionary slogans, later staged a march through the city center.

Six Ventura College basketball players were evicted Wednesday morning from the three-bedroom apartment they share near campus. The complex was the site of a racially motivated attack on Sept. 18 in which several players, all of whom are black, were subjected to racial taunts by people police identified as having gang affiliations. Players said they were not given a reason for the eviction. Phone calls to the apartment's management office were not returned.

As the city of Moorpark battles in court with the owner of a High Street feed mill the city is trying to evict, a handful of merchants who lease space from the depot owner have found themselves caught in the middle. "We're living day to day and it's a very difficult, unbearable situation," Leon Paikin, who operates a paint and wallpaper decorating center in the shadow of the mill, told the City Council last week.