Court Opinion

ID: 9481821
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 08:32:47.025701+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:48:35.880821
License: Public Domain

GOODWIN, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
Today we hold that the Rocklin rent control ordinance, as applied, results in a physical taking of private property. We reach this result because the law of the circuit is found in Hall v. City of Santa Barbara, 833 F.2d 1270 (9th Cir.1987), cert. denied, 485 U.S. 940, 108 S.Ct. 1120, 99 L.Ed.2d 281 (1988).
I concur under the compulsion of precedent, but for the record I want to note that I have not forgotten the difference between the physical and the metaphysical. Hall reached a commendable legislative result by calling a regulatory ordinance a physical taking. I am in somewhat the same position as I found myself upon first reading Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 93 S.Ct. 705, 35 L.Ed.2d 147 (1973), applauding the result but disturbed by the method. Nonetheless, stare decisis is a proven policy, and I concur.