SLOW AND FINE: Stephen Yagman doesn’t do nice. Given that Santa Barbara is all about “nice,” it was only a matter of time before Yagman — a crusading civil rights attorney from Los Angeles with the personality of an unoiled chainsaw — got around to suing Santa Barbara.
In this case, it would be both the city and the county that Yagman sued. More specifically, Yagman claims the two Santa Barbaras have criminalized certain “unavoidable acts of being human” — like sitting, resting, and sleeping, especially when the people engaged in these activities happen to live, sleep, and sit — but most of all, park their vehicles on city streets — in campers or RVs.
At first blush, Yagman’s legal brief — filed in federal court on September 13 — reads like another long-shot loser case filed by a jailhouse lawyer. Yagman misspells the name of one of the people he’s accusing on the cover page. Worse yet, he misspells the name of his own client.