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Contentious California Kitty Calls It QuitsEscondido (Calif.) Public Library’s famous feline L.C. (for Library Cat), a former mascot that became the focus of a $1.5-million lawsuit against the city in 2001, died quietly in a private home the weekend of October 4.City Librarian Laura Mitchell said in the October 9 San Diego Union-Tribune that the nearly 11-year-old feisty female cat, adopted by the library in 1994 and forced into early retirement after her attack on an assistance dog sparked a lawsuit, suffered recently from seizures caused by tumors. “She had a lot of people who loved her,” Mitchell said, “and she was really spoiled while she was here.” Deputy City Attorney Steve Nelson plans to file a motion in November to dismiss the lawsuit, brought by the assistance dog’s owner, Richard Espinosa. Nelson told the Union-Tribune that he considers the litigation frivolous and that L.C.’s death won’t affect the case. “We won’t be able to ask the cat what happened,” he explained. “It might put us at a disadvantage if the dog can talk and the cat can’t.” Posted October 13, 2003. |
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