Helfend v. Fleming

MARIS, Chief Judge.

The complainant seeks the review of proceedings in the Office of Price Administration by which the maximum rents for rooms in the Helfend Hotel at Wilmington, in the Los Angeles defense-rental area, were reduced below the rates at which they were first rented or offered for rent by the complainant in July 1942. The regulation involved is the Rent Regulation for Hotels and Rooming Houses. The maximum rent date in the Los Angeles defense-rental area was March 1, 1942.

On June 1, 1944, the Rent Director notified complainant of a proposal to decrease his maximum weekly rents to…