De Paolo v. Rosales, 118 Cal. App. 5th Supp. 1 (2026)
John R. De Paolo is the owner and trustee of the real property for which Jenny Rosales was the property manager/tenant. After De Paolo terminated Rosales’s employment, he served her with a 30-day notice to quit the premises. The trial court found that Rosales did not have an independent right of possession of the unit that was separate from the “Resident Manager’s Agreement,” and her right to continued occupancy was dependent upon the continuation of her employment as resident manager. The court further determined that Rosales had not met her burden to prove that the termination of her employment was unlawful or retaliatory and that the Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (Cal. Civ. Code § 1946.2, et seq.) was inapplicable because the occupancy of the premises was not lawful after Rosales’s employment was terminated. The Appellate Division of the Superior Court affirmed the judgment in favor of De Paolo.