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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Drouet v. Superior Court, 104 Cal. Rptr. 2d 159 (2001)

Citation
Drouet v. Superior Court, 104 Cal. Rptr. 2d 159 (2001)
Parent Document
Drouet v. Superior Court, 104 Cal. Rptr. 2d 159 (2001)
Jurisdiction
California (state)
Effective Date
2001-05-23

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An apartment is as much a castle to a renter as a home is to its owner. The Ellis Act right to go out of business is not a license for landlords to act in cavalier disregard of their tenants. The Legislature has imposed numerous restrictions on the landlord's right to go out of business. The right is not, as petitioner and some decisions describe it, "unfettered." (Yarmark, supra, 203 Cal.App.3d at p. 165, 249 Cal.Rptr. 732; see First Presbyterian Church v. City of Berkeley, supra, 59 Cal. App.4th at p. 1251, 69 Cal.Rptr.2d 710; Los Angeles Lincoln Place Investors, Ltd. v. City of Los Angeles, supra, 54 Cal. App.4th at pp. 61-62, 62 Cal.Rptr.2d 600.) On the contrary, the use of the term "unfettered" is an unfortunate misnomer.