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Consumers Government 

Affordable Housing

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020 BRIEF
Class Action, housing, incomes, rent, Santa Monica

A class action accuses Santa Monica of violating rules on maximum rents allowed under the Affordable Housing Production Program by not basing them on median income, in L.A. Superior Court.

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Appeals Business Entertainment Regional 

Ninth Circuit Upholds Santa Monica Ban on Airbnb-Type Rentals

October 3, 2019October 4, 2019 MARTIN MACIAS JR
Airbnb, Commerce Clause, hotels, interstate commerce, Ninth Circuit, Santa Monica

A Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday affirmed dismissal of a lawsuit claiming a beach city’s ordinance banning short-term rentals unlawfully disrupts the flow of interstate commerce.

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Appeals 

Rent Control

July 31, 2019July 31, 2019 BRIEF
housing, parental rights, Santa Monica

Reversing, a California appeals court ruled that the Santa Monica Rent Control Board may indeed reinstate rent control on several properties.

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Entertainment Environment 

Ruling Soon on The Edge’s $79 Million Malibu Home

April 19, 2017February 1, 2018 MATT REYNOLDS
California, California Coastal Commission, celebrity, CEQA, Malibu, Music, property, Real Estate, Santa Monica

A Superior Court judge could rule by Friday on whether U2 guitarist The Edge can break ground on a $79 million, five-home project on 151 acres in the Santa Monica Mountains, or whether it needs more environmental review.

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Business Civil Rights 

Class of Home-Sharers Can Sue Santa Monica

April 4, 2017May 26, 2017 DON DEBENEDICTIS
Airbnb, California, Class Action, Constitution, Home-Sharing, Santa Monica

A federal judge rejected a constitutional attack on a Santa Monica ordinance that bans most Airbnb-style short-term vacation rentals, but allowed frustrated homeowners to continue their class action against the city’ under California’s sweeping Coastal Act.

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Uncategorized 

Ninth Circuit Won’t Clear Cop of Civil Charges

March 16, 2017March 16, 2017 MIKE HEUER
Ninth Circuit, Police Killing, Santa Monica

A Santa Monica Police detective must defend herself from civil charges of interfering with a witness in a dismissed 2008 murder case, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Tuesday.

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