Airbnb must continue defending itself against a lawsuit alleging the company profited from soaring rental prices during one of Southern California’s most devastating disasters.
A California judge ruled that Los Angeles can continue pursuing claims that the short-term rental platform facilitated unlawful price increases after January’s deadly wildfires.
What happened?
On Tuesday, Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto said California Superior Court Judge Robert Broadbelt would not dismiss the city’s lawsuit, as The Spokesman-Review reported.
The suit, filed in July, accuses Airbnb of illegally raising prices on more than 2,600 listings after Governor Gavin Newsom’s emergency order for Los Angeles took effect…