OAKLAND, Calif. – A federal judge tossed with prejudice a couple’s fight over Oakland’s requirement to pay tenants a $7,000 relocation stipend when ending a lease or evicting them, finding the couple has not and cannot show the ordinance is unconstitutional.
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