Pac. Shores Properties v. City of Newport Beach

At issue in this case was the City’s enactment of an ordinance which had the practical effect of prohibiting new group homes – i.e., homes in which recovering alcoholics and drug users live communally and mutually support each other’s recovery – from opening in most residential zones. The court reversed the district court’s dismissal of plaintiffs’ disparate treatment claims; plaintiffs have created a triable fact that the ordinance was enacted in order to discriminate against them on the basis of disability, and that its enactment and enforcement harmed them; and the court reversed the district court’s dismissal of all of plaintiffs’ damages claims, except for its dismissal of Terri Bridgeman’s claim for emotional distress.

Pac. Shores Properties v. City of Newport Beach