Government
Dec. 15, 2010
The Great Rent Control War
The rent control war ends in the U.S. Supreme Court, but adversaries continue to squabble.
Myron Moskovitz
Legal Director, Moskovitz Appellate Team
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UC Berkeley SOL Boalt Hal
Myron Moskovitz is author of Strategies On Appeal (CEB, 2021; digital: ceb.com; print: https://store.ceb.com/strategies-on-appeal-2) and Winning An Appeal (5th ed., Carolina Academic Press). He is Director of Moskovitz Appellate Team, a group of former appellate judges and appellate research attorneys who handle and consult on appeals and writs. See MoskovitzAppellateTeam.com. The Daily Journal designated Moskovitz Appellate Team as one of California's top boutique law firms. Myron can be contacted at myronmoskovitz@gmail.com or (510) 384-0354. Prior "Moskovitz On Appeal" columns can be found at http://moskovitzappellateteam.com/blog.
After Birkenfeld v. City of Berkeley (1976) 17 Cal.3d 12, upheld the rights of California cities to regulate rents, I got together with a couple of other "Beserkeley" activists (Jim Grow and Marty Schiffenbauer) to draft a new rent control law for Berkeley. We tried to make it bullet-proof: we included both an annual general adjustment for all landlords and a provision enabling hearing officers to give landlords individual increases to cover any cost increases not covered by the g...
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