Legal Opinion · Dissent
City of Thousand Oaks v. Verizon Media Ventures, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 13, 2003No. 02-55798, 02-55816; D.C. No. CV-02-02553-ABCPublished
1DissentRawlinson, Circuit Judge
I respectfully dissent.
As the majority acknowledges, § 4.1 of the franchise ordinance prohibits the sale or transfer of a “Franchise and any rights or obligations of the Grantee under the Franchise ... without prior written consent of the city.”
Section 4.2 of the Franchise ordinance prohibits transfer of “[o]wnership or control of the Grantee ... without the prior written consent of the City.”
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