Isaac C. Young

• Code Enforcement
• Land Use & Zoning
• Environmental Law
• Labor & Employment
• Litigation & Appellate Law
• Eminent Domain / Regulatory Takings
• Real Estate / Title
• Water

Water:

• Successfully settled a complex litigation matter involving the Dominguez Channel Odor incident.

• Assisted in settlement of a federal water litigation matter involving chronic toxicity.

Risk Management- Personal Injury:

• Secured a victory on a Motion for Summary Judgment on a case alleging a Dangerous Condition of Public Property at an intersection with an activated traffic signal where an automobile driver failed to stop and injured two pedestrians

• Successfully negotiated a settlement prior to hearing of City’s Motion for Summary Judgment in a disputed trip and fall case resulting in a fractured hand.

Code Enforcement:

• Successfully negotiated and resolved a code enforcement matter involving an injunction against a business violating a City zoning law.

• Successfully completed seven civil abatement actions resulting in private property restoration through Receivership proceedings.

• Successfully resolved dozens of criminal misdemeanor prosecutions involving housing violations.

Civil Rights:

• Successfully assisted in the settlement of a Civil Rights case involving procedures of municipal police.

Eminent Domain/Regulatory Takings:

• Limetree Estates v. City of Rancho Palos Verdes, USDC Case No. 2:23-CV-01420-PVC: Secured a victory on a Motion for Summary Judgment on a case involving the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause when a grading permit was not issued to scrape a private road in the Portuguese Bend Landslide Complex.

Employment:

• Successfully negotiated a settlement prior to hearing of City’s Motion for Summary Judgment in a disability discrimination and retaliation case.

Land Use:

• Successfully demurred a Writ of Mandate action by having a demurrer sustained without leave to amend for a proposed development project that failed to adhere to local regulations and exhaust administrative remedies. 

•  Deputy City Attorney, City of Carson

• Deputy City Attorney (Litigation), City of Rancho Palos Verdes

• Special Counsel, City of Compton

• State Bar of California
  
  
• US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
  
  
• US District Court, Central District of California

• Brown Act – Presentation in the City of Carson on the Brown Act, October 17, 2022. 

• City Attorney’s Association of Los Angeles County (“CAALAC”) Retreat – Presentation in the City of Marina Del Rey, on DEI: The Impacts on Unconscious Bias and Microaggressions, and Ways to Disrupt Them, February 23, 2024.

• Latinx Law Student’s Association Annual Law Firm Symposium – Public Law Panel in the City of Los Angeles at Loyola Law School, April 4, 2024.

• Environmental Law Panel, Loyola Law School, April 17, 2024, online.

• Law Q & A Panel, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity at University of California, Riverside - May 23, 2024.

• Litigation: Deliberative Process Privilege, Attorney-Client Privilege, Preservation of Evidence, and Public Records Act Requests – City of Carson – January 21, 2025. 

• Law Q & A Panel, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity at University of California, Riverside – May 14, 2026

• Brown Act/Ethics Training, City of Compton, Dollarhide Community Center, June 20, 2026

• Brown Act/Ethics Training, City of Compton, Dollarhide Community Center, June 27, 2026

• Loyola Law School, JD, 2020
  
  
• University of CA, Riverside, BA, Political Science/Law and Society, 2014