Gemtel Corporation Gemtel Wdch Hotel Associates v. Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles County of Los Angeles

Opinion by Judge KLEINFELD.

Gemtel sued the Community Redevelopment Agency and the County of Los Angeles for injunctive, declaratory and damages relief for violating federal rights. The action was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction, as moot in some respects and unripe in others. We affirm, though not entirely on the same grounds.

Facts

Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney, donated $50 million for a concert hall in the Bunker Hill area of Los Angeles. The Com-' munity Redevelopment Agency and Mrs. Disney’s foundation decided that a luxury hotel would fit well into the development. They and Gemtel, a developer, negotiated toward building a luxury hotel on the Agency site, to. be operated by Ritz-Carlton. The County of Los Angeles, to formalize the arrangement properly under California law, issued a “request for proposals,” to which only Gemtel responded.

The deal fell apart when the Agency issued a draft “Policy on Employment Opportunities for Service Employees” which would apply to the development. The policy would require the hotel to pay “prevailing rates of wages and benefits” and provide a “basic level of working conditions.” The wages and benefits would have to be “not…