MHC Financing Limited Partnership et al. v. City of San Rafael, 9th Circuit 09-16447. The Firm filed its Opening Brief on behalf of the City of San Rafael and co-appellant Contempo Marin Homeowners Association challenging Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision in 2008 that the City of San Rafael’s mobilehome rent control laws were an unconstitutional taking. The Brief demonstrates that this type of law is common and well established in California, that it does not constitute a taking, and that MHC should not have been permitted to bring the suit in the first place as it bought the Park after the law was in place and had been upheld by the state courts and has never sought to utilize the “fair return” procedures under the law to seek higher rents. A copy of the Opening Brief can be found here