Yesterday in this space, we told you of 39-year-old Star Harris of Long Beach, who’s suing 7-Eleven for an alleged slip-and-fall accident in 2004 at its store at Tenth Street and Long Beach Boulevard–and for allegedly being assaulted in the store immediately afterwards by a man who was buying beer.
That’s news–but what’s even newsier is the past legal history of Harris and her mother Debro Saad, who has been giving Harris the benefit of her advice in the 7-Eleven case. Between them, these ladies have been involved in no less than 36 separate legal actions in L.A. County since Jan. 1, 1995. That’s a lot of litigating.

“Yes, fighting, always fighting. Somebody bothering me, somebody doing something. You gotta choose your fights today,” Harris says in a telephone interview. A review by The District of about a dozen of these court cases reveals that Harris and her mother usually represented themselves–and that they almost always lost.

Since 1995, Harris and her mother have been sued by more than a half-dozen landlords from Paramount to Long Beach, seeking to evict one or the other. In seven eviction cases surveyed, the renters–either Harris or Saad–lost every time, and combined judgements against both amounted to $11,081.64 in back rent, damages and attorney fees.

“I don’t think we fought those,” Harris says. “Those were slum lords, they didn’t want to fix anything, we said ‘Do what you want to do. We’re out.’ ”

Out, perhaps, but not finished. Stay tuned.

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