Judicial Review Timeline & Key Documents

10/29/2025- The PVHA's lawyer filed their reply to our Opposition. You can read the full reply here.

10/17/2025- We filed our Opposition to the PVHA's Motion to Strike. A link to our Opposition is here. We believe that the PVHA's Motion is just an attempt to avoid Judicial oversight and continue its undemocratic and broken election process of directors self appointing themselves year after year.

9/29/2025- The PVHA filed a motion to strike our entire first Amended Petition. A motion to strike is legal method one side can use to wipe our a complaint or petition when they believe that the pleading filed has irrelevant, false, or improper matters OR not drawn or filed in conformity with the laws of the state. A link to the PVHA's motion can be found here. We obviously believe the PVHA's motion is wrong on the law and wrong on the facts. The Motion will be heard on November 5, 2025 at 11am in the Torrance Courthouse Section E. We hope PVHA members will attend.

8/25/2025- Brian Pressman on behalf of the PVHA files an "Amended First Petition" with the court. A copy of the Amended Petition is here.

8/8/2025- The Court scheduled our first hearing on the petition. It is scheduled for January 29, 2026 at 11am In Department E of the Torrance Court House 825 Maple Ave in Torrance with Judge Honeycutt.

7/25/2025- A petition with the Los Angeles Superior Court and assigned to Judge Honeycutt. The lawsuit seeks to compel the PVHA to:

• Open the ballots received for the Jan 2025 election, count them, and accept the top five candidates as Directors

• Lower the quorum on future elections to 20% from 50%

• Lower the quorum on changing the By-Laws from 67% to 40%

• Require all candidates (including incumbents) to comply with the process for collecting nominating signatures

• Require PVHA to do three ballot mailings (unless a quorum has been reached with less than 3 mailings)

• Allow for proxies, drop-off of ballots, and cumulative voting (which means if there are 5 positions, the voter can allocate 5 votes however the voter wants, such as on vote for each for 5 candidates or 5 votes for one candidate)

A copy of the full petition with all exhibits is here

3/26/2025- Mahmoud Farzaneh, a current PVHA board member responds saying that "At this time, the Board has decided that it is not in the best interest of the Association to incur legal fees and time to file such a petition. As you know, the Association conducts annual meetings as required, allowing each member the opportunity to exercise their right to vote, including the option to vote electronically."

3/4/2025-Mahmoud Farzaneh, a current PVHA board member responds saying that board will discuss supporting the legal petition the week of March 17th.

3/3/2025- After receiving no response to the second letter a third letter was sent.

2/25/2025- After receiving no response a second letter was sent.

1/26/2025- Letter sent to the PVHA's lawyer asking if they would support a legal petition to reform the PVHA's election rules and reduce the quorum. We offered to cover $1000 of the legal fees associated with the petition.