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California’s law regulating automated license plate recognition systems (ALPRs) (Civ. Code, §§ 1798.90.5–1798.90.55) governs ALPRs used as part of a system to control access to a parking garage or parking area, whether designed to limit use to residents, customers or...
Under California’s statewide rent control law and just cause eviction law, single family homes and individual condominium units are exempt from rent control and from just cause for eviction (except for those owned by a REIT, a corporation or an LLC with a corporation...
On August 21, 2025, the Court of Appeal in Los Angeles held that a landlord who collected rent from a tenant, greater than the amount actually owed, was liable civilly for treble damages plus attorney fees. Penal Code §496(a) makes it a felony to receive or hold...
A person can establish an easement to use a portion of another person's property, using the other person’s property that way, openly and obviously, adversely without permission, for at least five years. Neither the user nor the owner need to know that the user does...
In the usual negligent injury case, the victim must prove that the bad guy was negligent, that the victim was injured, and that the bad guy’s negligence caused the injury. In some cases, we know that several persons were negligent, that the negligence caused the...
If a term of a written agreement you are negotiating is not exactly as agreed, do not let it go. In Coyote Aviation Corp. v. City of Redlands, Coyote negotiated a twenty-year lease with two fifteen-year options to extend, to build a hangar at the Redlands airport, was...
If you are a landlord of space which is not residential, not a home, not a condominium unit, and not an apartment, and you serve a tenant with a notice to pay rent or quit, or a notice to perform or quit, or a notice to quit after termination, and then the tenant...
In Lee v Cardiff, a Contra Costa appeal released for publication on August 11, again a contractor was caught claiming his employees were independent contractors in order to avoid paying workers compensation insurance premiums. The contractor was ordered to repay...
Your real estate holdings offer you a wide variety of different opportunities. You may increase the value of your property by building new structures or improving the existing buildings. However, zoning may limit those opportunities. How can zoning impact your options...
The Court of Appeal has ruled that eviction settlements where the landlord agrees to waive all the unpaid rent if the tenant moves out by a specified agreed date, and the tenant agrees to a judgment against the tenant for the full amount of the unpaid rent if the...