Law Practice,
Appellate Practice
Aug. 1, 2022
The Rent Control War - Part Two
Within a year after Prop 13 was enacted, furious tenants pushed their local legislators and electorates to enact rent control ordinances. Rent control quickly sprung up in Santa Monica, Berkeley, and even the big boys: Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Myron Moskovitz
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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.
In my last column, I described the California Supreme Court's rejection of the constitutional challenges to local government's right to regulate residential rents, in Birkenfeld v. City of Berkeley (1976) 17 Cal.3d 129. The Court also laid out how to draft a rent control law that would pass legal muster.
But instead of settling the issue, Birkenfeld set off a wave of highly-organized landlord resistance.
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