Frank H. Howard (before 1840 – disappeared August 6, 1896) was an American attorney who was president of the Los Angeles County Board of Education and a member of the Los Angeles City Library Board and a trustee of the county law library. He represented the city librarian when she sued a Methodist minister for slander over a prayer he had recited. Howard disappeared without a trace in 1896.
23-514: Elected official of Los Angeles Los Angeles City Attorney [REDACTED] Seal of Los Angeles [REDACTED] Flag of Los Angeles [REDACTED] Incumbent Hydee Feldstein Soto since December 12, 2022 Type City attorney Appointer Direct election Term length 4 years Website cityattorney .lacity .gov The Los Angeles City Attorney
46-529: A Methodist minister, J. W. Campbell, for slander after he had called her out in a prayer from his pulpit on August 19, 1894, for having purchased a number of assertedly obscene French-language books, including Le Cadet by Jean Richepin . Campbell's prayer was: "Oh! Lord, vouchsafe thy saving grace to the librarian of the Los Angeles city library, and cleanse her of all sin and make her a woman worthy of her office." Howard argued that "the law of slander
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92-506: A prayer" and that the action could proceed. At about the same time, Howard was the chairman of a two-man committee that examined the policy of the library regarding the purchase of books and whether "our rules need amendment in any respect, either as to the censorship of books to be placed upon the shelves, or in the manner of distributing the same for use on the premises, or for home circulation." On August 6, 1896, Howard left his house at 1043 South Hill Street, "telling his family that he
115-601: A public nuisance. Feldstein Soto said that police have been called more than 250 times in the last two years because of problems at houses that the business rents out in the Hollywood area. While running for office, Feldstein Soto opposed the construction of 140 units of affordable housing in Venice. In July 2024, once Feldstein Soto was in office, advocates for low-income housing sued the city of Los Angeles, accusing Feldstein Soto of violating fair housing laws by blocking
138-548: A tentative settlement to Knock LA journalist Ben Camacho and the group Stop LAPD Spying Coalition for their legal fees. Following the LAPD picture release, Feldstein Soto suggested to several California state legislators to weaken the California Public Records Act of 1968 by exempting "images or data that may personally identify an individual". The ACLU described Feldstein Soto's proposal as a "gutting" of
161-642: Is an American attorney and politician, who is the incumbent City Attorney of Los Angeles. She is a member of the Democratic Party . Feldstein Soto was born in 1958 in San Juan, Puerto Rico and moved to the mainland United States at age 17 to attend Swarthmore College and Columbia Law School , graduating from the latter in 1982. As an attorney, she served as a general counsel and worked in several private practices. In 2021, Feldstein Soto announced her candidacy for Los Angeles City Attorney . She
184-675: Is an elected official who serves as the City of Los Angeles ' government's lawyer and as a criminal prosecutor for misdemeanor offenses only. The City Attorney is elected for four years, and the City Charter requires the city attorney to be a lawyer qualified to practice in the California courts for five years preceding their election. In addition the General Counsel Division of the office provides legal counsel for
207-502: The Los Angeles Times revealed that Adams had hosted a fundraiser for Feldstein Soto. She subsequently withdrew her support for Adams, who resigned. In 2023, the Los Angeles Times reported that Feldstein Soto had instructed city agencies to not interact with the developers of a project for homeless and affordable housing on a city-owned parking lot in Venice, an affluent neighborhood of L.A. The project had been approved by
230-561: The City Council and had survived NIMBY lawsuits, but Feldstein Soto's actions delayed it from moving forward. Under Feldstein Soto's leadership, her office sued journalist Ben Camacho and the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, a local advocacy organization, to return a flash drive containing photographs of LAPD officers. The City of Los Angeles had given Camacho the pictures in response to a public records request, and
253-603: The Public Records Act. Frank H. Howard Howard was born in Mississippi, the son of Volney E. Howard , the first attorney general of the state of Texas in 1836. Frank Howard graduated from Heidelberg University with a medical degree and then took up law to become an attorney. He was said to be a linguist "of no ordinary mark," having studied French, German, Spanish and classical languages. He settled in Los Angeles, before 1865. In 1886, Howard
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#1732782725087276-568: The Skid Row Housing Trust, which holds a collection of 29 buildings home to 1,500 formerly unhoused people. Feldstein Soto described Adams as "the most experienced health and safety receiver we were able to locate in the state of California". A Los Angeles Times review of Adams's record showed that he had a history of overbilling local governments, failing to maintain the conditions of his properties and putting vulnerable tenants at risk of eviction and homelessness. In July 2023,
299-539: The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition subsequently published them on the website WatchTheWatchers.net as well as for download on the Internet Archive A coalition of media organizations denounced the lawsuit as limiting the freedom of the press. Constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky commented that "the city is on very weak legal grounds". In June of 2024, The city of Los Angeles agreed to pay $ 300,000 in
322-2981: The city and represents it in civil actions . The Los Angeles County District Attorney is an elected official who serves a four year term and is the criminal prosecutor for the County of Los Angeles for both felony and misdemeanor offenses. List of Los Angeles city attorneys [ edit ] Image Name Term [REDACTED] Benjamin Hayes 1850–1851 [REDACTED] William G. Dryden 1851–1852 [REDACTED] Joseph Lancaster Brent 1852–1853 Charles E. Carr 1853 [REDACTED] Joseph Lancaster Brent 1853 Isaac Hartman 1854–1855 [REDACTED] Lewis Granger 1855–1856 [REDACTED] Cameron E. Thom 1856–1858 James H. Lader 1858–1859 Samuel F. Reynolds 1859–1861 James H. Lader 1861–1862 [REDACTED] Myer J. Newmark 1862 [REDACTED] Alfred Chapman 1862–1865 James H. Lader 1865 [REDACTED] Andrew J. King 1866–1868 [REDACTED] Charles H. Larrabee 1868 (did not serve) William McPherson 1868–1870 Frank H. Howard 1870–1872 [REDACTED] Aurelius W. Hutton 1872–1876 [REDACTED] John F. Godfrey 1876–1880 [REDACTED] Henry T. Hazard 1880–1882 Walter D. Stephenson 1882–1884 [REDACTED] James Wilfred McKinley 1884–1886 J. C. Daly 1886–1888 Charles H. McFarland 1888–1894 [REDACTED] William Ellsworth Dunn 1894–1898 [REDACTED] Walter F. Haas 1898–1900 [REDACTED] W. B. Mathews 1900–1906 [REDACTED] Leslie R. Hewitt 1906–1910 [REDACTED] John W. Shenk 1910–1913 [REDACTED] Albert Lee Stephens Sr. 1913–1919 [REDACTED] Charles S. Burnell 1919–1921 [REDACTED] Jess E. Stephens 1921–1929 [REDACTED] Erwin P. Werner 1929–1933 [REDACTED] Ray L. Chesebro 1933–1953 [REDACTED] Roger Arnebergh 1953–1973 [REDACTED] Burt Pines 1973–1981 [REDACTED] Ira Reiner 1981–1985 [REDACTED] James Hahn 1985–2001 [REDACTED] Rocky Delgadillo 2001–2009 [REDACTED] Carmen Trutanich 2009–2013 [REDACTED] Mike Feuer 2013–2022 [REDACTED] Hydee Feldstein Soto 2022–present Notes [ edit ] ^ "The election took place as ordered by
345-459: The company and its founders were ordered to pay $ 5 million in civil penalties. The lawsuit had been filed in February 2021, almost two years before Feldstein Soto took office, and was prosecuted by staff who predated Feldstein Soto's election along with Everytown Law and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan . In March 2023, Feldstein Soto asked a court to appoint Mark Adams as a receiver for
368-541: The council on April 6, 1868. All officials were duly elected on that date and certified on the 9th of April, three days later, but did not hold a single session. Instead, the existing administration continued to function until December 7, 1868. The April election seems to have been wholly ignored." Chronological Record of Los Angeles City Officials 1850–1938, Municipal Reference Library, March 1938, reprinted 1946. References [ edit ] ^ Sonenshein, Raphael J. (2006). Los Angeles : structure of
391-799: The defendants and so they were able to resume their positions as the "legal and duly-authorized officers" of the library. The decision was sustained by the California Supreme Court in March 1892. Howard was also a trustee of the County Law Library, resigning from that post on July 21, 1892. He was president of the Los Angeles Bar Association in November 1893. Howard was one of the attorneys representing city librarian Tessa L. Kelso , who had sued
414-544: The housing development in Venice. The Los Angeles Times editorial board criticized Feldstein Soto for derailing the housing development. Feldstein Soto announced a settlement in her office's lawsuit against Polymer80, the nation's largest manufacturer of weapons parts kits and components , permanently prohibiting the company from selling its weapons parts kits its in California without first conducting background checks of buyers and serializing its products. In addition,
437-428: The start of Labor Day Weekend, on September 1, 2023, Feldstein Soto joined Councilmembers Hugo Soto-Martínez and Tim McOsker to unveil new legislation to strengthen the enforcement of wage theft violations. On August 15, 2023, Feldstein Soto announced her office had filed a lawsuit against a company, Nightfall Group, that offers luxury party houses for short term rentals saying that they violate city laws and create
460-637: Was endorsed by the Los Angeles Times. She prevailed in the general election, becoming the first female City Attorney in L.A. history, and the first Latina elected to citywide office in Los Angeles. On September 12, 2023, Feldstein Soto announced that the City Attorney’s Office had filed a lawsuit against the owners and operator of a motel in South Los Angeles that has served as a “hub for prostitution” for several years. At
483-484: Was going on a business trip to San Bernardino and the desert. That day he was seen by a friend, standing on a street corner waiting for a streetcar ." That was the last trace of him. A body was found on Mount Wilson the next month, raising an expectation that it was Howard's, but that identification was ruled out by Los Angeles County Coroner George W. Campbell. Three years later, in October 1899, some members of
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#1732782725087506-491: Was president of the Los Angeles County Board of Education, and in 1890 he was a Democratic candidate for Superior Court judge in Los Angeles. In 1891, members of a library board newly appointed under provisions of a new Los Angeles city charter brought a suit against Howard and the other members of the existing board, which the newcomers wanted to supplant. Superior Court Judge Shaw ruled in favor of
529-404: Was such that any statement of action tending to diminish the authority of anyone occupying an official position was actionable and that the acts complained of certainly tended to diminish the confidence of the public in his client as a public officer ." In April 1895 a Superior Court judge ruled that the actions of the minister were not privileged, that "slander can be perpetuated in the form of
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