Experience

Rent Control/Property Rights

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.

Larson v. City & County of San Francisco, 192 Cal. App. 4th 1263 (1st Dist. 2011): represented rental property-owners in a successful constitutional challenge to enforcement of numerous provisions of Proposition M (malicious eviction) in San Francisco, and defense of cross-appeal of a judgment enjoining enforcement of one-sided attorneys’ fee provision.