Saudi Arabia: Abdelaziz Bin Abdullah’s LA court case

A court in Los Angeles has ruled in favour of King Abdullah Bin Abdelaziz’s son, deputy foreign minister Abdelaziz Bin Abdullah, who is seeking to build a residential estate in the hills above Benedict Canyon. Legal battles linked to the development have been going on for some time; in a blog posting on 3 March, Prince Abdelaziz’s lawyer Benjamin Reznik, of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell, said a three-judge panel in the Court of Appeal had unanimously affirmed a lower court judgment in favour of the prince’s Tower Lane Properties, and against the City of Los Angeles and Bruce and Martha Karsh, who own a neighbouring property and have been leading efforts to stop the prince from building.