United States Ninth Circuit

In a Takings Clause challenge to a rent control ordinance, judgment on the pleadings for defendant is reversed where the district court erred in determining that prior state court decisions striking plaintiff's "England reservations" of its federal constitutional claims meant there was no valid reservation.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/12/2009
• Decided 10/07/2009
• Published 10/07/2009

Judges

• BYBEE, Circuit Judge:, Before:  J. CLIFFORD WALLACE, SIDNEY R. THOMAS and JAY S. BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert S. Coldren, C. William Dahlin, and Mark D. Alpert (argued), Santa Ana, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John G. Barisone, Santa Cruz, CA, and Henry E. Heater (argued) and Linda B. Reich, San Diego, CA, for the defendants-appellees.