The LA Times and NBC reports that the judge ordered the gate to be open, not that it be torn down. Nonetheless, someone cut and tore down the gate posts that were installed.

It is quite easy to contact Mr. Compton. If you did, you might begin to answer your question as to whether putting up the gate was “really necessary” to make a point.

Some neighbors are nuts and many people are just bullies. Mr. Compton actually being a “fag” as his neighborly neighbors call him, and coming from several careers around Broadway and theater, and dance is not the most likely suspect as a bully.

Murphy v. Burch California Appeals Court Decision sets a very high level of strict necessity for prescriptive easement. Plaintiffs are now asking for a 30 foot easement where there was no such prior use. Code of Civil Procedure Section 321 circa 1872 does not allow people to expand width of easements by prescription per the appearance clause.

When neighbors turn into hostile bullies, it might be necessary to show how insecure and without merit are their ideas of entitlement.