Excerpts from Court Opinion:

“… plaintiffs fail to establish that they held any right—vested or otherwise—in the renewal of short-term rental licenses expressly limited in term, or that the City “revoked” any license granted; these failures are fatal to their claims.”

“Plaintiffs’ characterization of their interest, however, depends on a misreading of the City’s short-term rental regulatory scheme and a loose patchwork of mismatched authorities.”

“The City’s stated interest echoes what an earlier panel of this court upheld in Ewing v. City of Carmel-By-The-Sea (1991) …”