Fact check

I am responding to Stanley Lamport’s letter of Sept. 29. His client, Brian Boudreau, sued Mary Hubbard, who happens to be my mother, for being false and misleading, but in this letter he was, in my opinion, false and misleading.

Stanley states in his letter, “Judge Janavs did not validate Ms. Hubbard’s argument. She found most of the argument against the inn and spa was opinion that Hubbard could express with little or no factual basis.”

Opinion? No factual basis?

Stanley just said something false and here’s why: Mary’s argument had eight paragraphs. Three of them were minimally altered. The judge made her provide factual basis for her arguments. She spent weeks researching the evidence to support her arguments. That’s why the judge approved them. Yes, technically, the judgment says that Boudreau prevailed because the judge made my mom make some changes, but the changes were minor and insignificant.

The commotion about the Las Virgenes Homeowner’s Federation is what troubles me most. The judge removed the Federation’s name from the list, but the very next night, the Federation voted 13-1 to oppose the Malibu Valley Inn and to urge a no vote on the ballot measure. The truth is that the Federation is and always has been opposed to the Malibu Valley Inn. They’ve voted three times now on it; their intent is clear.

It is sad that all this hate has to happen over this inn, but we are doing it in the interest of saving the quality of Calabasas. Nolan Burkholder Calabasas