On July 27, 2012 the Los Angeles County Superior Court halted the listing by issuing a preliminary injunction. Judge Lisa Hart Cole described the action of UCLA and the Regents as "duplicitous." The Regents appealed the preliminary injunction. On September 16, 2013, the three judge Court of Appeal unanimously upheld the preliminary injunction. A trial date was scheduled beginning July 20, 2015 at the Santa Monica Courthouse of Los Angeles Superior Court. In October 2015, the heirs agreed to let UCLA sell the garden as long as the new owners kept the garden intact for the next 30 years. Meanwhile, the University of California Board of Regents established a US$500,000 endowment whose annual income to go to the preservation of the garden. In June 2016, UCLA sold the garden to developer Mark Gabay, the co-founder of the Charles Company, for US$12.5 million. The new owner is not required to open the garden to the public. It features winding paths, a waterfall, and a stone pagoda. Moreover, the main gate, garden houses, bridges and family shrines were built in Japan and reassembled in California. The garden includes only plants that grow in Japan. For example, it includes the following trees: pine trees, redwood trees, apricot, magnolia, maple and plum trees, California Live Oak trees, pittosporum, and purple beech trees.