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News & Analysis as of May 22, 2013

Court of Appeal Narrowly Reads School Bond Measure Language In Siding with Taxpayer Group’s Challenge To High School Stadium...

by P. Addison Covert, Meghan Covert Russell, Stacy Toledo | Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard on 5/20/2013

The California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, recently held that school district bond revenues could not be spent on stadium lighting where the bond proposition did not specifically list field lighting as part of...more

Challengers Double Down on Opposition to California’s Carbon Allowance Auctions

by Peter Hsiao, Sue Landsittel, William Sloan | Morrison & Foerster LLP on 4/25/2013

A second lawsuit has been filed challenging one of the centerpieces of California’s innovative cap-and-trade climate change regulatory program: the auction process implemented by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to...more

California's Cap and Trade Program Goes to Court Again

by Jon Costantino | Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 4/22/2013

The other shoe finally dropped. The much-speculated and much-anticipated “tax vs. fee” AB 32 Cap and Trade lawsuit has finally been filed. A diverse coalition of businesses and trade groups filed a lawsuit in a state superior...more

California Cap and Trade to Launch End of the World, Brave New World or Carbon Tax?

by Michael A. Nesteroff | Lane Powell PC - Environmental Law on 11/14/2012

Six years after then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the California Global Warming Solutions Act, also known as AB 32, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) holds its first auction of emissions allowances on November...more

2010 Propositions

by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 11/1/2010

This election cycle, voters have been focused on the highly competitive and record spending top-of-the-ticket races for California Governor and U.S. Senate. The candidates’ ads have dominated the press, radio and television...more