The LA City Council passed an amendment to the Just Cause for Eviction Ordinance (JCO), which went into effect January 27, 2025. It applies to most landlords who own and lease residential property within the city, if they are...more
2/21/2025
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Rent ,
Rental Property ,
Residential Property Owners ,
State and Local Government
State and local governments enacted new protections for residential tenants in the wake of the firestorms that razed large parts of Southern California. These protections are intended to help tenants navigate the challenges...more
1/28/2025
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Eviction ,
Executive Orders ,
Landlords ,
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Price Gouging ,
Relief Measures ,
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Short-Term Lease ,
State and Local Government ,
Tenants ,
Wildfires
On June 28, 2021 Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 832, which extended California’s eviction moratorium through September 30, 2021....more
In August 2020 Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law the COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act of 2020. Among other protections, the law gave tenants who were unable to pay rent due to COVID-19-related distress for the period September...more
On August 31, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an eviction protection law that significantly amends the long-standing procedures for initiating and prosecuting residential unlawful detainer actions based on...more
9/3/2020
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Eviction ,
Executive Orders ,
Financial Distress ,
Governor Newsom ,
Landlords ,
Rental Property ,
Residential Leases ,
State of Emergency ,
Tenants ,
Unlawful Detainer
In one of the first executive orders targeting evictions, Governor Gavin Newsom issued an order on March 16, 2020, which lifted restrictions on a local government’s authority to impose limitations on residential and...more
6/3/2020
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Eviction ,
Executive Orders ,
Governor Newsom ,
Landlords ,
Moratorium ,
Relief Measures ,
Rent ,
Rental Property ,
State and Local Government ,
Tenants
On May 6, 2020 the LA City Council passed a new eviction control Ordinance to strengthen the temporary eviction prohibitions enacted March 31, 2020. ...more
On April 14, 2020 the Board of Supervisors for the County of Los Angeles significantly expanded the scope of COVID-19 related eviction restrictions. Whereas a prior executive order applied only to unincorporated areas in Los...more
We previously wrote about the LA City Council’s March 31, 2020 Ordinance which, among other things, gave tenants up to 12 months following the expiration of the Local Emergency Period to repay past due rent that was unpaid...more
The California Judicial Council met April 6, 2020 to vote on certain emergency measures regarding unlawful detainer actions. ...more
When a month-to-month tenant stops paying rent and a landlord initiates an unlawful detainer lawsuit, does the tenant maintain tenancy rights in the premises pending the resolution of the lawsuit? ...more
The Court of Appeal just confirmed that a landlord is not barred from recovering rent owed by a tenant in a civil action for breach of contract, even after obtaining a judgment for unlawful detainer against the tenant, so...more
2/19/2018
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Breach of Contract ,
Collateral Estoppel ,
Commercial Leases ,
Commercial Tenants ,
Damages ,
Landlords ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Rental Income ,
Rental Property ,
Res Judicata ,
Summary Judgment ,
Unlawful Detainer