FISHER v. CITY OF BERKELEY

Docket No. S.F. 24675.

37 Cal.3d 644 (1984)

693 P.2d 261

209 Cal. Rptr. 682

ALEXANDRA FISHER et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CITY OF BERKELEY et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

December 27, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

James R. Parrinello, John E. Mueller, Christiane T. Riess, Dobbs & Nielsen, Nielsen, Hodgson, Parrinello & Mueller and Peter J. Donnici for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Jon D. Smock, Wilbur H. Haines III, Stephen L. Jones, Stacey & Jones, Tuttle & Taylor, Joseph R. Austin, David B. Babbe, Biddle & Hamilton, W. Craig Biddle, Ira Reiner, City Attorney (Los Angeles), Claudia McGee Henry, Assistant City Attorney, Michael S. Woodward, Deputy City Attorney, Latham & Watkins, Stephen L. Jones and George Kimball as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Myron Moskovitz, Ann Juergens, Jeffrey A. Walter, Natalie E. West, City Attorney, and Frederick W. Bray, Senior City Attorney, for Defendants and Respondents.

James R. Grow, Michael Heumann, Stephen P. Wiman, Marsha Jones Moutrie, Robert M. Myers, City Attorney (Santa Monica), Stephen S. Stark, Assistant City Attorney, Karl M. Manheim, Deputy City Attorney, Robert J. Logan, City Attorney (San Jose), John W. Witt, City Attorney (San Diego), and George Agnost, City Attorney (San Francisco), as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

Plaintiffs, a group of landlords who own property in the City of Berkeley, appeal from a judgment of the Alameda County Superior Court holding defendants' rent control ordinance constitutional on its face. We substantially affirm the judgment.

Plaintiffs claim that defendants' ordinance conflicts with, and hence is preempted by, federal antitrust law because it is a combination that unreasonably restrains...

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