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Ms. Ailin has represented public agencies in a wide variety of litigation and transactional matters since 1990. While she specializes in property acquisition, eminent domain and inverse condemnation, her litigation experience includes cases involving the breach and interpretation of contracts, writs of mandate, CEQA, unlawful detainer, civil rights violations, the Brown Act, conflicts of interest and validation actions. She also advises clients on issues involving the Political Reform Act, the Public Records Act, and the Brown Act. Ms. Ailin is the Assistant City Attorney of Bellflower and Lompoc. She is Assistant Agency Counsel for the Community Redevelopment Agencies of Bellflower and Lompoc, and Assistant Agency Counsel for the Community Development Commission of Baldwin Park. She serves as chairperson of the LA County Bar Association Condemnation and Land Valuation Committee for 2010-11.
Ms. Ailin’s property acquisition and eminent domain practice has included total and partial takings for public works projects such as flood control, street widening and freeway projects, as well as acquisition for redevelopment and reuse of blighted properties. Her property acquisition experience includes unusual properties such as a water company, an unusual property interests, such as real property use restrictions. In the course of this work, Ms. Ailin has defeated challenges to the public agency’s right to take property and claims for precondemnation damages. In cases that have gone to a jury trial on compensation, the majority of the verdicts Ms. Ailin has obtained have been favorable to the condemning agency. In the inverse condemnation arena, Ms. Ailin has obtained court rulings holding that no taking has occurred.
Ms. Ailin is a frequent seminar speaker on various eminent domain related topics, including right to take issues, the mechanics of obtaining possession prior to judgment, loss of goodwill claims, relocation benefits and managing property acquisition programs.
The range of other litigation undertaken by Ms. Ailin includes revocation of conditional use permits, defense of issuance of land use entitlements (including CEQA challenges), eviction of a beach concessionaire who would not vacate upon termination of the lease, an administrative challenge to a proposed water company acquisition and numerous validation actions challenging redevelopment plan adoptions and amendments. Ms. Ailin also has extensive experience at the appellate level and has several published court of appeal decisions to her credit.
A native of Washington, D.C., Ms. Ailin has a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master’s in Library Science from the University of Maryland at College Park. She obtained her J.D. degree with honors from the University of Texas School of Law in 1983. In addition to being a member of the State Bar of California, she is admitted to practice before the Central and Eastern Districts of the Federal District Court of California, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal and the United States Supreme Court. She is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.
Public Offices
Assistant City Attorney
Bellflower (2008 - present)
Lompoc (2009 - present)
Assistant Agency Counsel
Community Development Commission, Baldwin Park (2008 - present)
Community Redevelopment Agency, Bellflower (2008 - present)
Lompoc Redevelopment Agency (2009 - present)
Affiliations
LA County Bar Association
LA County City Attorney’s Association
California Redevelopment Association
Former Volunteer Mediator, Los Angeles Superior Court
Admissions
State Bar of California
US District Courts, Central & Eastern Districts of CA
US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
US Supreme Court
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