2710 Sutter Ventures, LLC v. Millis (2022)

Citation: 2710 Sutter Ventures, LLC v. Millis (2022)
Parent Document: 2710 Sutter Ventures, LLC v. Millis (2022)
Jurisdiction: California (state)
Effective Date: 2022-08-31
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/7861646/2710-sutter-ventures-llc-v-millis/ ↗

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every situation. [Citation.] It “excuses literal noncompliance
only when there has been ‘actual compliance in respect to the
substance essential to every reasonable objective of the
statute.’ ” ’ ” (Andrews v. Metropolitan Transportation Authority
(2022) 74 Cal.App.5th 597, 607 (Andrews).)
      Here, there was not actual compliance in respect to the
substance of every reasonable objective of section 37.9A(e)(4).
One purpose of the notice requirement is to provide tenants
subject to evictions under the Act information regarding the full
scope of the right to relocation assistance benefits. This serves to
ensure that each tenant has the information needed to
understand what payment is due (to all “Eligible Tenants”) where
the tenant may be in the best position to ascertain what payment
is due. Given the termination notice’s omission of clear
information regarding the landlord’s obligation to provide a
relocation payment on behalf of “each authorized
occupant . . . regardless of the occupant’s age” and the obligation
to provide additional benefits where such persons are disabled or
elderly, the landlord failed to satisfy the Rent Ordinance’s goal of
ensuring that tenants receive clear information regarding the full
scope of the right to relocation assistance benefits.
      Plaintiffs’ notice also failed to satisfy another objective of
section 37.9(e)(4). Analogizing to California’s first comprehensive
anti-rent gauging and eviction control law, the Tenant Protection
Act of 2019 (Assem. Bill No. 1482 (2019–2020 Reg. Sess.)), we
believe the notice requirement at issue also serves to protect
against abusive evictions in that it acts as a partial deterrent to a

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