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U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit

Apr. 19, 2013

City's mobile home park rent control ordinance isn't a taking, 9th Circuit rules

The ruling, involving one of a string of court fights in which parks are seeking to reverse statutes capping the amount of rent they can charge, overturned a lower court holding that San Raphael's ordinance constituted a "taking."


By Henry Meier


Daily Journal Staff Writer


"As Yogi Berra observed, 'it's deja vu all over again' as we are being 'called upon to consider, yet again, a takings challenge to mobile rent control laws.'"


That's 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sidney R. Thomas quoting the loquacious former Yankee, along with a prior court case, in the opening line of the opinion he wrote for a panel considering a challenge...

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