Hundreds of mobile home residents who are fighting eviction in Sweetwater took their battle to court in a fight that has been brewing for months.

Dressed in white, residents of Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park residents sat in a courtroom at the Miami-Dade County Courthouse in downtown Miami, Thursday afternoon.

“We’re all living there. We have 230 trailers there; we’re living there,” said Li’l Abner resident Roberto Guido.

They’re part of a group of about 200 people who are staying at the Sweetwater mobile home community, despite it having closing down in May to make way for new development.

“They didn’t want to give us no justice,” said Guido.

Now a panel of five judges is listening to these residents’ case.

Back in November, the park’s 3,000 residents received notices to vacate their t

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