The City of Santa Clara is fighting back after a jury ordered it to pay the owner of David’s Restaurant and Banquet Hall more than $1.3 million. On May 16, the city filed an appeal contesting a January 2025 civil court verdict.
The verdict was the culmination of several years of court battles between David’s Restaurant, referred to in court documents as D.E. II Restaurants, Inc., and the City of Santa Clara.
In 2019, the city began eminent domain action against D.E. II. Santa Clara offered $5,000 for D.E. II’s lease for the city-owned land at 5131 Stars & Stripes Drive…