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By Chris Carrillo, Esq. and Michael Duane Davis, Esq. The Westlands Water District (Westlands), one of the largest water districts in California, recently executed a…
By William Shepherd IV, Esq. and Rebecca Andrews, Esq. The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington recently found that the U.S. Army…
By Nedda Mahrou, Esq. This action arose from a challenge by several property owners to the Richmond, California city council’s adoption of an initiative amending…
By James Purvis, Esq. Plaintiffs challenged the decision of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to approve an industrial-scale wind facility in southern California,…
By Kathryn Casey, Esq. Last year, we wrote about an annual report issued by Next 10, an Oakland-based independent, nonpartisan think tank, entitled “2018 California…
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas recently found that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corp of…
On September 12, 2019, the Nevada Supreme Court issued a decision that confirmed the authority of Nevada’s District Courts to grant equitable relief when reviewing…
In a recent appeal, on September 9, 2019, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the Water Court jurisdiction does not include unadjudicated water rights, and…
The County of Butte, the California Water Service and the Paradise Irrigation District (PID) have begun studying whether it is economically feasible to pipe water…
In a unanimous, yet unpublished opinion, the Sixth District Court of Appeal affirmed the 142-page decision of the trial court denying the petition for a…
