Updates on some of the biggest stories from The District’s first year

PHOTO by JONATHAN NAFARRETE, WINNER OF OUR FIRST-EVER FLICKR PHOTO CONTEST
Bank doors closing for the last time. Roaring factories fallen suddenly silent. The stock market on suicide watch. Evangelical hymns in 10 thousand churches rising to an angry, bearded God. Foreign powers circling, eyeballing [...]

Star Harris and her mother, Debro Saad–subjects of The District’s Oct. 24 cover story–were front-and-center Tuesday night at a Sixth District Town Hall meeting, trying to do what they were unable to do one week before at a Long Beach City Council meeting: whip up support for Harris’s ongoing slip-and-fall lawsuit against 7-Eleven.

Debro Saad–whose daughter Star Harris is suing a Long Beach 7-Eleven franchise for an alleged slip-and-fall accident in 2004–is having a rough week herself.
At last night’s Long Beach City Council meeting, Saad tried twice to speak during the public comment portion of the meeting–but was cut off both times by Vice Mayor Bonnie Lowenthal, who [...]

A Long Beach mother and daughter with a long history of representing themselves in court–and losing–are now taking on 7-Eleven

DEBRO AND STAR by RUSS ROCA
IT FEELS LIKE JUSTICE
It’s a chilly Friday night, and about 15 protesters have gathered outside a 7-Eleven store. “This ain’t Jena, it’s Long Beach!” they chant for a while. A short [...]

What happens after you sue someone in small claims court and win? Do you get your money? Do you ever see them again? If you’re Long Beach landlord Nancy Downs–and you’ve sued your former tenant Star Harris, the answers are “No” and “Yes” respectively.

We’ve been telling the tale of Long Beach mom Debro Saad and her daughter Star Harris: of Harris’s slip-and-fall lawsuit against a Long Beach 7-Eleven, which returns to San Pedro Courthouse for a status conference Oct. 29; and how Harris and Saad have been involved in no fewer than 36 separate legal actions since Jan. [...]

We’ve been recounting some of the history of Long Beach resident Star Harris–whose slip-and-fall lawsuit against a Long Beach 7-Eleven franchise comes to court in San Pedro on Oct. 29–and some of the 36 separate court cases she and her mother Debro Saad have involved in, since 1995.
Yesterday we told you how Harris and Saad [...]

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 [...]

Some of you might have seen a tall thin lady in a baseball cap and a gray hoodie get up and speak at last night’s Long Beach City Council meeting. That was Star Harris, and as she spoke, her ailing mother Debro Saad sat in the audience–hooked up to her oxygen tank and sobbing at [...]