Legal Opinion
EMBASSY LLC v. City of Santa Monica
California Court of Appeal
Decided June 14, 2010No. B217622PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
ARMSTRONG, J.
This case arises under the Ellis Act, Government Code section 1 7060 et seq. The Ellis Act gives landlords “the unfettered right,” as outlined in the statute, to remove their residential units from the rental market (City of Santa Monica v. Yarmark (1988) 203 Cal.App.3d 153, 165 [249 Cal.Rptr. 732]) and means that cities cannot prevent residential landlords from going out of the landlord business (§ 7060.7).
In this case, a contract between appellants Embassy LLC and PRG Embassy Properties, L.P., and respondents City of Santa Monica and its rent control board (collectively,…
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