Legal Opinion
Action Apartment Ass'n v. City of Santa Monica
California Supreme Court
Decided August 2, 2007No. S129448PublishedCited by 190 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
MORENO, J.
In this case, we determine whether and to what extent the litigation privilege of Civil Code section 47, subdivision (b), conflicts with and thus preempts a section of the City of Santa Monica’s “Tenant Harassment” ordinance. In relevant part, the ordinance authorizes civil and criminal penalties against a landlord who maliciously serves a notice of eviction or brings any action to recover possession of a rental unit without a reasonable factual or legal basis. The Court of Appeal held that the litigation privilege conflicts with and thus preempts the entirety of this section…
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