rent-control

As a young law clerk working for Justice Thurgood Marshall at the Supreme Court in September 1987, Elena Kagan wrote an angry memorandum urging her boss to try to overturn a conservative appeals court ruling that had questioned the constitutionality of a rent-control ordinance.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Kagan’s Memos for Justice Marshall 2010

Although the decision does not invalidate the ordinance on its merits, it is an authorization for broad, wholesale attacks on rent-control regulation.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Kagan’s Memos for Justice Marshall 2010

In the conservative view, affirmative action is morally wrong for much the same reasons that union-shop laws or rent-control laws are morally wrong (independently of any economic effects) and that reason is that the government is unfairly taking sides between its citizens.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Affirmative Action and Racial Profiling Revisited 2010

Although the decision does not invalidate the ordinance on its merits, it is an authorization for broad, wholesale attacks on rent-control regulation.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Kagan’s Memos for Justice Marshall 2010

Remarkably, a serious constitutional challenge to rent-control and stabilization laws may finally be in the works.

Rent Control Hits the Supreme Court Richard A. Epstein 2012

The Shahs of Sunset were neither me nor mine, except perhaps the Iranian-American part, though I wasn't born here and didn't grow up in SoCal; except perhaps the living in LA part, I too had staked my decade in that city, though I had slogged it in the film business as a single woman in a rent-control studio -- and except, perhaps, the filthy rich Persian guy part.

Charlotte Safavi: On the Shahs of Sunset Reality Show Charlotte Safavi 2012

Only after that new rent has been set will control over future rent increases fall back into the hands of the city's rent-control board.

For Rent: Charming 2BR, With Holes in Wall for Cash Tamara Audi 2011

It's possible that the chamber could take up the measure Friday, but Republicans say they may delay a floor vote until lawmakers in both houses settle unrelated negotiations over the renewal of rent-control laws.

Gay Wedding Law Hits Hurdle Jacob Gershman 2011

High Bay Area ratios stem not only from the region's high housing prices but also from rent-control laws that limit increases, says Tara-Nicholle Nelson, Trulia's consumer educator.

Vital Signs 2010

All versions of rent-control laws share a single dominant characteristic: They allow a tenant to remain in possession of property after the expiration of a lease at below-market rents.

Rent Control Hits the Supreme Court Richard A. Epstein 2012