In a published decision filed September 6, 2024, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. 5) reversed the trial court’s judgment granting a writ of mandate and upheld the use of CEQA’s Class 1 categorical exemption (CEQA…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
In an opinion filed on July 24, and later ordered published on August 19, 2024, the Second District Court of Appeal (Div. 4) affirmed the trial court’s judgment denying a writ petition challenging actions taken by the Los…
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/ Environmental Law, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
The Sixth District Court of Appeal filed on July 24, and later certified for publication on August 6, 2024, its opinion in Center for Biological Diversity et al. v. County of San Benito, et al. (2024) __ Cal.App.5th __. The…
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/ Environmental Law, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
In an opinion filed June 27, and later ordered published (with slight modifications) on July 18, 2024, the First District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court’s judgment denying a writ petition challenging the City of…
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/ Environmental Law, Real Estate - Commercial, Real Estate - Residential, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
California Senate Bill No. 174 (SB 174), a budget trailer bill that was passed by the Assembly with amendments on June 26, received Senate concurrence on the amendments the same day, and was enrolled and presented to the…
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/ Administrative Law, Construction Law, Environmental Law, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
A landowner desiring to enter into a license agreement for the use of real property must take care to ensure that the license agreement does not contain terms that inadvertently waive the landowner’s right to recover the…
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/ Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Real Estate - Commercial
“It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.” Yogi Berra and Lenny Kravitz - In a unanimous opinion filed on June 6, 2024, the California Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the First District Court of Appeal in the controversial “People’s…
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/ Environmental Law, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
In an opinion filed April 18, and belatedly ordered published on May 15, 2024, the Third District Court of Appeal reversed the trial court’s order discharging the peremptory writ of mandate that was issued following the Court of…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) has long required a full analysis of project's potential adverse effects on the environment. The environmental impact report (EIR)-known as the "heart of CEQA"-is intended to…
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/ Environmental Law, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
In a partially published opinion filed March 29, 2024, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. 4) rejected contentions that the pre-judgment completion of construction of a shooting range mooted a CEQA challenge to the project;…
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/ Environmental Law, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
In a partially published (but mostly unpublished) opinion filed on March 7, 2024, the Fifth District Court of Appeal reversed the trial court’s judgment and writ-discharge order which had upheld Kern County’s most recently…
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/ Agriculture, Environmental Law, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
In an important published opinion filed February 16, 2024, the Fourth District Court of Appeal (Div. 1) held the San Diego County Board of Supervisors committed a prejudicial abuse of discretion in granting project opponents’…
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/ Administrative Law, Construction Law, Environmental Law, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
In a published opinion filed on January 17, 2024, the Second District Court of Appeal (Div. 5) reversed a trial court judgment overturning a mitigated negative declaration (MND) and requiring an EIR for a 42-single family home…
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/ Environmental Law, Real Estate - Residential, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
In a 51-page published opinion filed January 5, 2024, and resolving consolidated appeals, the Third District Court of Appeal rejected baseline, piecemealing/segmentation, impact analysis, project description, alternatives…
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/ Environmental Law, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
The Corporate Transparency Act (the “Act”) imposes a wide-ranging requirement for many business entities to file personal information about their respective owners and control persons with a federal regulatory agency and to keep…
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/ Business Organizations