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

I. Background

24 25 1 The court has also considered submissions from amici curiae 26 (1) National Housing Law Project (“NHLP”); (2) Professors Ananya Roy and Paul Ong, of the University of California, Los Angeles 27 (“UCLA Scholars”); and (3) the Cities of Chicago, Albuquerque, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Cambridge, Chelsea, Cincinnati, 28 Columbus, Dayton, Gary, Santa Cruz, Santa Monica, Seattle, St. The COVID-19 global pandemic is the gravest public health crisis in over a century. At present, the novel coronavirus has killed at least 230,000 Americans and infected over 9 million more. The true toll may never be known, but is likely significantly higher. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”), for example, estimates that the number of “excess deaths” in the United States is closer to 300,000.3 Neither the State of California nor the City of Los Angeles have been spared from the ravages of COVID-19. Nearly a million Californians have been infected, and nearly 18,000 have died.4 Approximately 300,000 of those cases and 7,000 of those fatalities have occurred in the Los Angeles area.5 Eight months into the…