January 09, 2023
Billionaire developer and landlord Geoffrey Palmer is appealing to the Ninth Circuit the dismissal of a $100 million federal lawsuit brought against Los Angeles by his companies, hoping to revive the effort to recover money he claims he lost from the city's anti-eviction law during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
November 18, 2022
The city of Los Angeles has dodged a lawsuit brought by billionaire developer and landlord Geoffrey Palmer seeking $100 million in just compensation because of the city's COVID-19 eviction moratorium, with a California federal judge saying the moratorium was not a violation of the Fifth Amendment's takings clause.
August 10, 2021
Companies owned by a prolific Southern California apartment builder and landlord are the latest to sue the city of Los Angeles over its COVID-19 eviction moratorium, seeking over $100 million in compensation for "astronomical" financial losses suffered as a result of the allegedly unconstitutional anti-eviction law.