Opinion ID: 3065171
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Injunction Issued by the District Court

Text: The district court granted summary judgment to Tenants on the ground that although the HUD regulation and LARSO actually conflict, HUD’s regulation exceeded the federal agency’s statutory authority. Because we hold there is no actual conflict between LARSO and the HUD regulation, we do not reach the question of whether promulgation of the regulation was within HUD’s authority.9 Though we disagree with the district court’s reasoning, because we may affirm the district court’s judgment “on any ground supported by the record,” Sec. Life Ins. Co. of Am., 146 F.3d at 1190, we affirm the grant of summary judgment and the permanent injunction entered by the district court. Morton also challenges the scope of the injunction, arguing that it must be limited to proscribing it from terminating Tenants in order to raise the rent. The district court enjoined “Defendant and any of its agents from failing to allow the Enhanced Voucher Plaintiffs to remain at Morton Gardens with enhanced voucher assistance,” and “from evicting or terminating the tenancy or lease of all Plaintiffs without comply- 8 Amicus California Apartments Association argues that LARSO is preempted by California Civil Code § 1954.535, an issue not raised by Morton on appeal. Morton has thus waived the issue, see United States v. Gementera, 379 F.3d 596, 607-08 (9th Cir. 2004), and we typically “do not consider on appeal an issue raised only by an amicus.” Engine Mfrs. Ass’n v. S. Coast Air Quality Mgmt. Dist., 498 F.3d 1031, 1043 (9th Cir. 2007) (internal quotation marks omitted). Accordingly, we do not address Amicus’s argument on the merits. 9 Because we do not affirm the district court’s invalidation of HUD’s regulation, we need not decide whether the district court’s decision on that ground should be applied only prospectively. 14452 BARRIENTOS v. 1801-1825 MORTON LLC ing with all the requirements of [LARSO].” Tenants respond that Morton did not object to the scope of the injunction before the district court and, therefore, has waived the objection. See Ritchie v. United States, 451 F.3d 1019, 1026 n.12 (9th Cir. 2006) (concluding that failure to raise an issue before the district court waives it on appeal when the issue involves an exercise of the district court’s discretion and the district court “might have been able to deal with the problem”); see also Conn. Gen. Life Ins. Co. v. New Images of Beverly Hills, 321 F.3d 878, 883 (9th Cir. 2003) (“This issue is . . . raised for the first time on appeal, and we cannot entertain the argument because further factual development would be required.”). We agree with Tenants that Morton waived the objection to the scope of relief by failing to raise it before the district court. Accordingly, we decline to address it.