Apartment Association of Los Angeles County, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles

I. Background

25 The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles (“Plaintiff”) 26 represents and provides advocacy services for rental property 27 owners throughout Southern California. On June 11, 2020, Plaintiff 28 filed this action against the City of Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti, and the Los Angeles City Council (collectively, “Defendants” or “the City”), challenging the City’s implementation of Ordinance No. 186585 (“Eviction Moratorium”) and Ordinance No. 186607 (“Rent Freeze Ordinance”) (collectively, “the Ordinances"”). (Compl. 2.) On March 27, 2020, the Los Angeles City Council enacted the Eviction Moratorium in response to the ongoing economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic,. (Dkt. 16-5, Eviction Moratorium, Ex. 5.) The Eviction Moratorium temporarily prohibits evictions of residential and commercial tenants for failure to pay rent due to COVID-19 and prohibits no-fault evictions of residential tenants if the tenant or any member of the household is ill, in isolation, or under quarantine due to COVID-19. (Id.) Subsequently, on March 30, 2020, Mayor Eric Garcetti enacted the Rent Freeze Ordinance. The…