Experience

Rent Control/Property Rights

California Apartment Assn. v. City of Pasadena, 117 Cal. App. 5th 187 (2d Dist. 2025), rev. denied, 2026 Cal. LEXIS 1648 (Cal., Apr. 1, 2026): successfully challenged various provisions of a rent control ordinance on the grounds that they are preempted by Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, the Ellis Act, and the State of California’s unlawful detainer statutes.

California Apartment Assn. v. County of Los Angeles, Case No. 23STCP01114 (Los Angeles Superior Court 2024): successfully challenged a County policy increasing the notice required to initiate eviction proceedings for non-payment of COVID-19 related rent, on the ground that the policy was preempted by the State of California’s unlawful detainer statutes.

San Francisco Apartment Assn., et al. v. City & County of San Francisco, 3 Cal. App. 5th 463 (1st Dist. 2016): on behalf of representatives of the rental housing industry, successfully challenged a 2013 San Francisco ordinance that imposed a ten-year ban on unit mergers, on the ground that the ban was preempted by the Ellis Act.