A step closer to Supreme Court as tenant

A setback today in the lawsuit seeking to block the sale to private owners of state buildings, including the Supreme Court’s San Francisco and Los Angeles homes. Despite support for the lawsuit from the Administrative Office of the Courts, a Superior Court judge in San Francisco today denied a preliminary injunction of the sale that is due to close escrow next week. The plaintiffs’ lawyer has vowed to take the case to the Court of Appeal on Monday. Of course, that court sits in the same San Francisco building as the Supreme Court, which is one of the buildings that is the subject of the lawsuit.