SAN FRANCISCO — Lawyers for Airbnb Inc. and Homeaway.com Inc. faced pointed questions Thursday from a federal judge considering whether to block a San Francisco ordinance regulating short-term rentals.
U.S. District Judge James Donato pushed back when attorneys for the companies—Munger, Tolles & Olson’s Jonathan Blavin for Airbnb and Davis Wright Tremaine’s James Grant for Homeaway—argued that the city’s measure is barred by a federal statute protecting web publishers from claims related to user-generated content. But the judge also questioned lawyers from the city attorney’s office about how San Francisco would help companies that provide booking services for short-term rentals to comply with the law, which imposes fines for unregistered rentals listed on their sites.”You’re Fort Knox,” Donato said to James Emery of the city attorney’s office. “You hold all the information about who’s registered or not.”
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