California Court of Appeal

In an action challenging an ordinance regulating sub-prime consumer loans secured by city real property, under which federally chartered lenders were exempted, no part of the ordinance is preempted by state law, as a matter of law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/17/2003
• Published 09/17/2003

Judges

• MARGULIES, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Severson & Werson, Mark Joseph Kenney, Jan T. Chilton, Donald J. Querio, San Francisco, for Plaintiff and Appellant American Financial Services Association., Arnold & Porter, Laurence J. Hutt, Los Angeles, Dennis G. Lyons, Howard N. Cayne, Michael C. O'Brien for California Bankers Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant., Norma P. Garcia, Costa Mesa, for Consumers Union of U.S., Inc., Kevin D. Stein, for California Reinvestment Committee


• For Appellees:
  
• John A. Russo, City Attorney, Barbara J. Parker, Chief Assistant City Attorney, John Truxaw, Supervising Deputy City Attorney, Daniel Rossi, Deputy City Attorney;  Cotchett, Pitre, Simon & McCarthy, Joseph W. Cotchett, Marie Seth Weiner, Steven N. Williams, Burlingame, Jamie N. Gonzalez, for Defendants and Appellants City of Oakland and Redevelopment Agency of the City of Oakland., Maeve Elise Brown for the National Housing Law Project, AARP, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), Congress of California Seniors, Consumer Credit Counseling Service of the East Bay, Lao Family Community Development, Inc., Legal Assistance for Seniors, and Spanish Speaking Unity Council of Alameda County, Inc. as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.