May 30, 2017 -- A California Federal Court last week dismissed a claim against the City of Santa Monica that argued that the California Coastal Act overrode the City's ban on short-term vacation rentals listed on such sites as Airbnb.

In his ruling Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II found that Federal court was the wrong venue to argue that claim and noted that he already had dismissed all other federal claims in the class action suit filed by a retired school teacher last June.

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