Howard Iten v. County of Los Angeles

1 2 O 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 HOWARD ITEN, ) Case No. CV 21-00486 DDP (JEMx) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S MOTION ) TO DISMISS [15][16] COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ) ) Defendant. ) ___________________________ ) 16 Presently before the court is Defendant County of Los Angeles (“the County”)’s Motion to Dismiss. Having considered the submissions of the parties and heard oral argument, the court grants the motion and adopts the following Order. I. Background Plaintiff Howard Iten is part-owner of a commercially zoned property in the County of Los Angeles. (Complaint ¶ 8.) Beginning in March 2020, the County imposed a moratorium on commercial tenant evictions for nonpayment of rent related to the COVID-19 global pandemic (“the Moratorium”). (Id. ¶ 18(I); Declaration of Kathryn 27 28 1 The term “tenant” excludes commercial tenants “that are D. Valois, Ex. A.) The Moratorium prohibits the eviction of a 2 …