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On May 14, 2019, the California Court of Appeal for the First Judicial District concluded that the Mendocino Community Services District was authorized to impose…
The California Coastal Commission (Commission)is charged with protecting the state’s beaches from the effects of overdevelopment. Yet with climate change projections predicting rising sea levels…
Due to changes in metrics allowed to be utilized in climate models, portions of the federal government will no longer meet scientific metrics of accuracy…
On January 16, 2019, California’s three state cannabis licensing authorities announced that the Office of Administrative Law officially approved state regulations for cannabis businesses across the…
The law of receivership in Colorado has it's quirks when applied to the setting of retail cannabis sales. Background on Receivership in Colorado Under Colorado…
Since the California Bureau of Cannabis Control’s (BCC) Permanent Regulations (Permanent Regulations) took effect on January 16, 2019 in California, one of the fiercely contested…
The winter of 2018-2019 yielded considerable snow fall amounts in the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada mountain ranges that feed the water supply for Nevada.…
The Colorado Supreme Court has held that, because a priority date is the most important element of a water right, a 1909 water decree lacking…
California Governor Gavin Newsom is proposing to tax water users throughout California to help fund projects and programs to assist low-income communities where water quality…
Well known is that water is a natural resource of limited supply, leading to what history and current events illustrate to be epic “water wars.”…
