Links below pop open a new window; documents provided by
Andrea Mogensen upon request after failing to be able to get electronic copies
from the Clerk of Court
Memorandum in
Opposition to Defendants' Motions for Summary Judgment (54 pages)
Mogensen points to an institutional pattern of of failure to maintain public
records, argues that such failure is spoliation in her lawsuit against the city
and city officials, specifically names City Clerk Lori Stelzer and I.T. Director
Lance Heiss as primarily responsible for failure to maintain public records;
former city manager Marty Black gets a bit creative in explaining why he
"resigned" from the City of Venice; much more...
Plaintiff's
Motion to Compel (26 pages)
Mogensen asserts that Councilwoman Sue Lang failed to turn over two emails as
part of Discovery and prior public records requests, asks the court to direct
Lang to produce all relevant materials that had been previously requested
Plaintiff's Notice of Refiling (3 pages)
Addendum of sorts to the above Motion to Compel -- a couple of documents that
Mogensen forgot to include in the intial filing of the above motion
Affidavit
of (attorney) Matthew Leish in Opposition to Defendants' Motions for Summary
Judgment (507 pages)
An evidentiary treasure trove of material related to the lawsuit -- more
documents than you can shake a city attorney at; includes excerpts from a number
of depositions as well as numerous public documents that are now seeing the
light of public view for the first time, all of which makes you wonder: Why did
City Attorney Bob Anderson choose to fight this lawsuit so strongly when it was apparent from
the beginning that such a stance would doom his client? If that was Anderson's
original plan, it's working...