A CALIFORNIA country club has engaged in a brutal legal battle after officials tried to force it to take a fence down.

Ronald Richards, the lawyer representing the Rancho Mirage Golf Course, which is located near Beverly Hills, said he planned to appeal a court’s ruling that he violated a city ordinance that has banned chain-link fences in Rancho Mirage.

The country club is located in an 18-hole golf course community with 266 homes.

A hearing on the Oasis Ranch’s appeal was presided over by an impartial officer that the city hired, according to the local media outlet, the Desert Sun.

“I will appeal to have it heard in a real court … where a judge hears the case and won’t be paid by one of the parties,” Richards told the media outlet at the time.

Per the city’s municipal code, an appointed designee or city manager will preside over the hearing, the city code compliance manager, Sandra Johnson, said.

“To assure there was no impartiality, the city elected to hire a third-party firm for the purposes of contracting services of an impartial hearing officer on the city’s behalf,” explained Johnson.

“The compensation was not contingent upon the outcome of the hearing.”

She says the selection of the officer was in full compliance with the law.

The golf course’s fence was called a public nuisance by residents who live in the gated community around the golf course.

Many residents wanted the fence taken down.

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Some homeowners even argued that the golf course has been designated as a place for residents to escape if a major earthquake or disaster occurs, and the fence could get in the way.

“It’s been like living in a prison,” homeowner Susan Lucas told the publication.

However lawyers for Oasis Ranch have argued that the fence was installed as a safety protection against liablitiy if someone falls into one of the property’s lakes.

They put up a permit to request a permanent fence at the time.

The city said the company has installed the new fence around the perimeter of the golf course without obtaining a necessary permit.

A Riverside County Superior judge, however, granted the city’s motion for a warrant to remove the fence.

A warrant was then issued by the city demanding that the fence be removed.

The attorney representing the business said at the time: “We were never given notice they were going to execute it.

“We gave the city notice … that we were going back to court to seek a hearing or a stay. This is a blatant attempt to take my client’s property without due process of law of any kind,” he concluded.

However, the city began removing the fence anyway.

After the fence was removed, the president of the community’s homeowner’s association told the Desert Sun in a separate story: “We’re elated.”