Manufactured Home Communities Inc. v. City Of San Jose

420 F.3d 1022 MANUFACTURED HOME COMMUNITIES INC.; MHC Operating Limited Partnership, an Illinois limited partnership, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF SAN JOSE; Enis Rice; Gary DeWet; Martin Vancil; Marsha Skratt, Defendants-Appellees. No. 03-16766. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued April 14, 2005. Submitted August 17, 2005. Filed August 23, 2005. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Elliott L. Bien, Bien & Summers, LLP, Novato, CA, for the appellants. David Bradford and Lisa T. Scruggs, Jenner & Block, LLC, Chicago, IL, for the appellants. Richard Doyle, George Rios, and Shannon Smyth-Mendoza, Office of the City Attorney, San Jose, CA, for appellee City of San Jose. Bruce E. Stanton, Law Offices of Bruce E. Stanton, San Jose, CA, for appellees Enis Rice, Gary DeWet, Martin Vancil, and Marsha Skratt. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California; James Ware, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-03-01713-JW. Before LAY, * B. FLETCHER, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges. BETTY B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge. 1 Manufactured Home Communities, Inc. 1 and MHC Operating Limited Partnership 2 (collectively MHC) sued the City of San Jose…