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By James Purvis Owners of property in a residential subdivision brought an inverse condemnation claim against Placer County (County) and filed petitions for writ of…
By Derek R. Hoffman In a years-long dispute over water allocations among irrigation district water users in the Imperial Valley, the California Fourth District Court…
By Deborah Quick Obtaining final agency action subject to judicial review can sometimes feel like the culmination of a mythic odyssey to applicants for administrative…
By Geremy Holm, Miles Krieger, Steve Anderson In July 2020, the Council on Environmental Quality adopted sweeping revisions to its longstanding 1978 regulations detailing implementation…
By Debbie Leonard On September 17, 2020, the Nevada Supreme Court issued an eagerly awaited ruling regarding the public trust doctrine in the long-running Walker…
By Christina Berglund The California Supreme Court in Protecting Our Water and Environmental Resources v. County of Stanislaus found that the County of Stanislaus (County) had…
By Travis Brooks The Fourth District Court of Appeal has provided some clarity on previously undecided issue regarding the interplay between vesting tentative and development…
By Sam Bivins and Meredith Nikkel The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) recently published a final rule updating the National Environmental Policy Act’s (NEPA) implementing…
By Paula Hernandez and Derek R. Hoffman The California Third District Court of Appeal recently upheld a determination that the State Water Resources Control Board’s…
By Austin C. Cho and Meredith Nikkel A recent ruling by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has inserted a new condition on a longstanding…
