United States Federal Circuit

An award for plaintiffs, owners of rental property, in a takings case is reversed where the trial court erred in declining to consider the effects of a Los Angeles rent control ordinance in calculating the damages from the taking, and is remanded pursuant to plaintiffs' cross-appeal for recalculation of damages for plaintiffs that entered into use agreements before the passage of the Housing Opportunity Extension Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/06/2006
• Published 06/06/2006

Judges

• Before MICHEL, Chief Judge, NEWMAN, and BRYSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard P. Bress, Latham & Watkins, of Washington, DC, argued for plaintiffs-cross appellants.   With him on the brief were Everett C. Johnson, Jr., Leonard A. Zax, Matthew K. Roskoski;  and Susan S. Azad, of Los Angeles, California.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark R. Freeman, Attorney, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for defendant-appellant.   With him on the brief were Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General and Mark B. Stern, Attorney.