United States Ninth Circuit

In an action under the Housing and Community Development Act challenging eviction notices issued by defendant-landlord, summary judgment for plaintiffs is affirmed where the Department of Housing and Urban Development's "good cause" regulation did not preempt the operation of the City of Los Angeles's eviction control ordinance.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/02/2009
• Decided 10/09/2009
• Published 10/09/2009

Judges

• WARDLAW, Circuit Judge:, Before DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, PAMELA ANN RYMER, and KIM McLANE WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Chris J. Evans, Kimball, Tirey & St. John, LLP, Irvine, CA, for appellant, 1801-1825 Morton LLC., Rockard J. Delgadillo and Gerald M. Sato, City Attorney's Office, Los Angeles, CA, Julie Nepveu, AARP Foundation Litigation, Washington, DC, Helen R. Kanovsky, Nancy D. Christopher, Doris S. Finnerman, William C. Lane, and David M. Reizes, Office of the General Counsel Department of Housing & Urban Development, and Tony West, Thomas P. O'Brien, Michael S. Raab, and Christine H. Kohl, Office of the Attorney General of the United States, Washington, DC, as amici curiae supporting affirmance., Karen K. McCay and Stephen D. Pahl, Pahl & McCay, San Jose, CA, as Amicus Curiae supporting reversal.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael E. Soloff, Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP, A. Christian Abasto, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, and James R. Grow, National Housing Law Project, Oakland, CA, for appellees, Debora Barrientos, et al.