Supreme Court of California

Adjustment of future rents to compensate for prior rent control ceilings under the standard set forth in Kavanau v. Santa Monica Rent Control Bd. will foreclose a suit for damages for violating due process rights if the adjustment adequately prevents constitutional injury by compensating for former excessively low rent ceilings.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/05/2001
• Published 02/05/2001

Judges

• MOSK, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Lozano, Smith, Smith, Woliver & Behrens, Lozano Smith, Thomas J. Riggs, Jerome M. Behrens and David J. Wolfe, Fresno, for Defendants and Appellants., Endeman, Lincoln, Turek & Heater, Donald R. Lincoln and Linda B. Reich, San Diego, for 76 California Cities and California State Association of Counties as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants., Pollak, Vida & Fisher, Girard Fisher and Daniel P. Barer, Los Angeles, for City of Chino as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.,  Worthington & Worthington and Jaquelynn C. Pope, Hermosa Beach, for Plaintiffs and Respondents., Law Offices of Rosario Perry and Rosario Perry, Santa Monica, for Action In Santa Monica as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents., Berger & Norton, Michael M. Berger and Gideon Kanner, Santa Monica, for Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents., Pahl & Gosselin, Stephen D. Pahl and Karen M. Kubala, San Francisco, for California Apartment Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents., James S. Burlingand Meriem L. Hubbard, Sacramento, for Pacific Legal Foundation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents., June Babiracki Barlow, Neil D. Kalin and Sonia M. Younglove, Los Angeles, for California Association of Realtors as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.