Santa Monica Beach, Ltd. v. Superior Court

Opinion

MOSK, J.

In this case we consider whether a trial court properly sustained a demurrer to a complaint alleging that a city’s rent control law violates the *957takings clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the equivalent provision under the California Constitution because of that law’s alleged failure to fulfill its stated objectives. We conclude that the trial court was correct to sustain the Santa Monica Rent Control Board’s demurrer to petitioner’s cause of action for inverse condemnation, and we accordingly reverse the Court of Appeal’s judgment.

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