Debora BARRIENTOS; Armando Briseno; Bertha Cardenas; Marta Chajon; Manuel Cuevas; Francisco A. Del Cid; Miguel Gonzalez; Jeong Soon Hwang; Bong Cha Kim; Jae Ok Kim; Leanna Kim; Nong-Soon Kim; Young Suk Kim; Maria Landaverde; Jane Lee; Jeong Lee; Susan Lee; Young Hean Lee; Jin M. Park; Norma Angelica Pena; Maria Rodriguez; Helen H. Yu, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
1801-1825 MORTON LLC, Defendant-Appellant.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued and Submitted March 2, 2009.
Filed October 9, 2009.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Chris J. Evans, Kimball, Tirey & St. John, LLP, Irvine, CA, for appellant, 1801-1825 Morton LLC.
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.
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.
Before DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, PAMELA ANN RYMER, and KIM McLANE WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
WARDLAW, Circuit Judge:
1801-1825 Morton LLC ("Morton"), a landlord subject to the Los Angeles Rent Stabilization Ordinance ("LARSO"), Los Angeles Municipal Code §§ 151.01 et seq., served notices of eviction upon tenants whose rent is subsidized by the federal government, because it desired to raise the rent on the apartment units. Though LARSO prohibits eviction for that purpose, Morton asserts that a U.S. Department...
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