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Landowner's defamation lawsuit against elected official advances.(rent control)
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California Planning & Development Report
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May 1, 2008
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The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has permitted a property owner's defamation lawsuit against a San Diego County supervisor to go forward.
A divided three-judge panel overturned a lower court's ruling that Manufactured Home Communities' lawsuit against Supervisor Dianne Jacob was a SLAPP suit. The Ninth Circuit determined that a jury could find some of Jacob's challenged statements were "actionable as provably false assertions of fact."
Manufactured Home Communities (MHC), which is now called Equity Lifestyle Properties, is familiar with federal and state courtrooms in California. The Chicago-based company--controlled by real estate investor Sam Zell, who bought ...