Palisades Fire Debris Inspection Process Left Intact by Judge

A bid to force Los Angeles County to inspect Palisades Fire debris sent to a landfill in the city of Calabasas was denied by a judge who found the county’s current process acceptable.

Calabasas hasn’t shown hazardous waste screenings for fire debris are so unsuccessful that they must be invalidated for being “arbitrary and capricious,” and the court doesn’t have authority to order a “better” process beyond what the county already requires, Judge Stephen Goorvitch said.

“This is an issue for the Board of Supervisors, not the court,” Goorvitch of the California Superior Court, Los Angeles County said in a ...