November 26, 2025

As you may already know, the City of Long Beach filed what is known as a demurrer asking the judge to throw our case out before it was even heard. The judge denied Saner’s claim that the “stop. taxi-back, and go” procedure should be treated the same as the four listed operations in the noise ordinance when it comes to flight training and curfew hours. We still believe that the clause “or any of them” was put in the ordinance to protect the neighborhoods from excessive flight training operations outside of the noted curfew hours. It just makes sense. We don’t believe that a built in loophole in the noise ordinance was intended nor should it be used to get around the ordinance and allow flight training outside of curfew hours.
The judge did however allow SANER to  come back to amend the petition with an amended writ of mandate showing multiple reports with thousands of violations, complaints and airport violation reports that don’t reflect any of the prohibited operations.
You can see SANER’s response to the original demurrer in the previous post here.

In this post, you can see our Writ of Mandate (end of this post). The first several pages are the writ, and the following many pages are the back up.
Currently, the judge is taking his time to go through the case and our next date will be sometime in the spring. Stay tuned!

First and foremost, thank you to everyone who has stood with us over the past few years. What our community has endured from nonstop flight-school noise has been exhausting, disruptive, and unfair and your support has kept this fight moving forward.

 Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!

After the holidays, if you’d like to help pass out flyers as we go door-to-door, please let us know. We’ll be getting organized soon after the holidays.

Here is the Amended Writ of Mandate dated 10/30/2025

Also, here is a link to all the public documents in our case so far.