De Anza Properties X, Ltd. v. County Of Santa Cruz

936 F.2d 1084 DE ANZA PROPERTIES X, LTD., a California Limited Partnership; William H. Douglas; Melba C. Douglas, as Trustees of the Douglas Family Trust, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ, Defendant-Appellee. No. 89-15750. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Oct. 3, 1990. Decided June 28, 1991. Charles S. Treat, Latham & Watkins, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants. Fran M. Layton, Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Before SCHROEDER, FERGUSON and BRUNETTI, Circuit Judges. SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge: 1 Appellants, collectively termed "De Anza," own mobile home parks in Santa Cruz County, California. In 1987, they filed this action against the county challenging the county's mobile home rent control ordinance. Their suit followed in the wake of this court's 1986 decision in Hall v. City of Santa Barbara, 833 F.2d 1270 (9th Cir.1986), cert. denied, 485 U.S. 940 , 108 S.Ct. 1120 , 99 L.Ed.2d 281 (1988), which held for the first time that local governments' enactments of rent control ordinances in…