LOS ANGELES (CN) — A Los Angeles court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a challenge filed by the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles over a pair of ordinances passed by the Los Angeles City Council in February.

One of those laws raised the amount of rent money on which a tenant has to be behind before they can be evicted for non-payment of rent. The other forces landlords to pay a relocation fee to tenants who have decided to move out after a rent increase above a certain level.

In a tentative decision published before the hearing, Judge Mitchell Beckloff indicated that he would likely leave the relocation assistance ordinance in place but rescind the eviction threshold law.

After more than an hour of oral arguments, however, the judge appeared to be wavering and gave no indication as to what he might do.

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