United States Ninth Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's action seeking to certify a class of all landlords who own and lease residential multiple dwelling units in the United States on which defendant has installed equipment, alleging that defendant had a policy of installing said equipment in common areas without the landlords' consent, is affirmed, where: 1) the local action doctrine vests exclusive jurisdiction over specified types of actions involving real property in the forum where the property is located; 2) the local action doctrine is jurisdictional; 3) California law governs whether this action is local; and 4) plaintiff's action was a local action under California law, and therefore had to be brought in Connecticut where the real property at issue was located.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/09/2014
• Published 04/09/2014

Judges

• IKUTA

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel