APARTMENT ASS'N OF LOS ANGELES CTY. v. CITY OF LA

No. 20-56251.

10 F.4th 905 (2021)

APARTMENT ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, INC., dba Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES; Eric Garcetti, in his official capacity as Mayor of Los Angeles; City Council of the City of Los Angeles, in its official capacity; Does, 1 through 25, inclusive, Defendants-Appellees, and Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action; Strategic Actions for a Just Economy, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 25, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Doug J. Dennington (argued), Peter J. Howell , Kelsey Quist , and Jayson Parsons , Rutan & Tucker LLP, Irvine, California, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Jonathan H. Eisenman (argued), Deborah Breithaupt , Elaine Zhong , and Matthew A. Scherb , Deputy City Attorneys; David Michaelson , Chief Assistant City Attorney; Michael N. Feuer , City Attorney; Office of the City Attorney, Los Angeles, California; for Defendants-Appellees.

Rohit D. Nath (argued), Marc Seltzer , and Krysta Kauble Pachman , Susman Godfrey LLP, Los Angeles, California; Nisha N. Vyas and Richard Rothschild , Western Center on Law and Poverty, Los Angeles, California; Kathryn A. Eidmann , Faizah Malik , Gigi Lam , Alisa Randell , and Lauren Zack , Public Counsel, Los Angeles, California; Michael Rawson and Craig Castellanet , Public Interest Law Project, Oakland, California; for Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.

June Babiracki Barlow , Senior Vice President and General Counsel; Neil D. Kalin and Jenny Li , Assistant General Counsel; California Association of Realtors, Los Angeles, California; for Amicus Curiae California Association of Realtors.

James R. Parrinello and Christopher E. Skinnell , Nielsen Merksamer Parrinello Gross & Leoni, San Rafael, California, for Amicus Curiae California Apartment Association.

Ethan W. Blevins , Pacific Legal Foundation, Seattle, Washington, for Amici Curiae El Papel LLC, Berman 2 LLC, Karvell Li, and Pacific Legal Foundation.

Lucia Choi , Tiffany L. Nocon , and Navneet K. Grewal , Disability Rights California, Los Angeles, California, for Amici Curiae Disability Rights California, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, and Disability Rights Legal Center.

Celia Meza , Acting Corporation Counsel; Benna Ruth Solomon , Stephen J. Kane , and Rebecca Hirsch , Assistant Corporation Counsel; City of Chicago Department of Law, Chicago, Illinois; Jonathan B. Miller and LiJia Gong , Public Rights Project, Oakland, California; Yibin Shen , City Attorney, Alameda, California; Esteban A. Aguilar Jr. , City Attorney, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Anne L. Morgan , City Attorney, Austin, Texas; Farimah Faiz Brown , City Attorney, Berkeley, California; Nancy E. Glowa , City Solicitor, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Cheryl Watson Fisher , City Solicitor, Chelsea, Massachusetts; Zach Klein , City Attorney, Columbus, Ohio; Christopher J. Caso , City Attorney, Dallas, Texas; Barbara J. Doseck , City Attorney, Dayton, Ohio; Rodney Pol Jr. , City Attorney, Gary, Indiana; Cara E. Silver , Interim City Attorney, Menlo Park, California; Barbara J. Parker , City Attorney, Oakland, California; Robert Taylor , Interim City Attorney, Portland, Oregon; Susana Alcala Wood , City Attorney, Sacramento, California; James R. Williams , Santa Clara County Counsel, San Jose, California; George S. Cardona , Interim City Attorney, Santa Monica, California; Lyndsey M. Olson , City Attorney, Saint Paul, Minnesota; Peter S. Holmes , City Attorney, Seattle, Washington; Francis X. Wright Jr. , City Solicitor, Somerville, Massachusetts; Judith R. Baumann , City Attorney, Tempe, Arizona; Delia Garza , Travis County Attorney, Austin, Texas; Michael Rankin , City Attorney, Tucson, Arizona; for Amici Curiae Local Governments.

Raymond P. Tolentino and Molly K. Webster , Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP, New York, New York, for Amici Curiae Constitutional Law Scholars.

Adrienna Wong , ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, for Amici Curiae UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy, UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge, Professor Ananya Roy, and Professor Paul Ong.

Eric Dunn , National Housing Law Project, Richmond, Virginia, for Amicus Curiae National Housing Law Project.

Jamie Crooks , Elk Hills Research, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae American Medical Asosciation, California Medical Association, and Other Public Health Associations and Professionals.

David A. King Jr. , Reichman Jorgensen LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Southern California Association of Nonprofit Housing.

Eleanor Morton , Leonard Carder LLP, San Francisco, California, for Amicus Curiae United Teachers Los Angeles.

Robert Lapsley , President, California Business Roundtable, Sacramento, California, as and for Amicus Curiae.

Before: Jay S. Bybee and Daniel A. Bress, Circuit Judges, and Kathleen Cardone, District Judge.


OPINION

Following the outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, the City of Los Angeles imposed an eviction moratorium with the stated purposes of ensuring housing security and promoting public health during the pandemic. The moratorium operates during a "Local Emergency Period" to bar certain evictions. Related provisions...

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