San Jose affordable housing law headed to U.S. Supreme Court by Howard Mintz, Sept 15, 2015
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_28816160/san-jose-affordable-housing-law-headed-u-s?source=infinite The California building industry has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its legal challenge to a San Jose affordable housing law upheld earlier this year by the state Supreme Court.
In a petition filed Tuesday in the U.S. Supreme Court, lawyers for the industry argue that San Jose's law and others like it across California violate federal constitutional protections against the "taking" of private property. The Pacific Legal Foundation, a conservative Sacramento group representing the industry, has taken its fight to the nation's high court.