Local Ordinance, Landlords, Appeals

Sixth Circuit Upholds Rental Inspection Ordinances: No Fourth Amendment Violation in Conditioning Licenses on Warrantless...

Kerr Russell on 9/4/2025

Whether you are a residential rental property owner or a tenant, odds are at some point you are going to encounter a rental inspection ordinance. Following the housing market crash in 2008, rental inspection ordinances grew...more

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms the Constitutionality of Local Ordinance Requiring Landlords to Pay a Tenant Relocation...

Snell & Wilmer on 2/15/2022

On February 1, 2022, the Ninth Circuit released its opinion in Ballinger v. City of Oakland 1 affirming the district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit in which the plaintiffs claimed that the City of Oakland’s Uniform...more

Los Angeles Eviction Moratorium Upheld by Ninth Circuit; Uncertainty Continues

Holland & Knight LLP on 8/31/2021

A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Aug. 25, 2021, upheld the City of Los Angeles' current residential eviction moratorium – first enacted by the City Council in 2020 as an emergency...more

California Court of Appeal Decision May Result in Big Tax Savings for Some Commercial Property Owners

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 7/17/2020

In a decision that could save some commercial property owners hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes, the Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District of California held in 731 Market Street Owner, LLC v. City and...more

Unprecedented: COVID-19 Litigation Trends, Issue 7

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 5/22/2020

This seventh edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, sees a continuation of the trend we identified last week: shutdown challenges, workers' compensation claims, and wrongful death lawsuits...more

The Limits of CEQA Mitigation – Recent Judicial Applications of Nollan and Dolan

Miller Starr Regalia on 11/19/2014

Perhaps foremost among the judicially recognized fundamental constraints on lead agencies’ power to impose various types of mitigation measures on project approvals in the CEQA process is the “doctrine of unconstitutional...more