Section 17535

Citation: Section 17535
Parent Document: Kraus v. Trinity Management Services, Inc., 999 P.2d 718 (2000)
Jurisdiction: California (state)
Effective Date: 2000-06-05
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1159700/kraus-v-trinity-management-serv... ↗

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The trial court found that defendants, large residential landlords, for many years engaged in unfair and unlawful business practices by charging tenants in their approximately 2,000 San Francisco apartments fees and deposits that violated Civil Code sections 1950.5 (security for residential rentals) and 1671 (liquidated damages). These illegal business practices, the court found, “have been systematically carried out by [defendants] for many years, beginning well before April 1, 1990 and continuing unabated since then.” Among other things, the trial court specifically found that, within the applicable four-year limitations period, defendants obtained illegal liquidated damages—sometimes as “security deposits”—in an average amount of $700 per tenant.

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