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On November 22, 2016 the California Water Commission (CWC) released newly revised draft regulations designed to implement the Water Storage Investment Program (WSIP). Once adopted,…
On November 30, 2016, a joint draft report was issued by five state agencies summarizing their individual and collective implementation actions and recommendations for a…
The California Court of Appeal for the Second Judicial District has held that a city council could place an initiative on the ballot that sought…
The Lake Tahoe basin is one of the most beautiful and famous pieces of real estate in the western United States. Brought to worldwide prominence…
The U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon recently denied the federal government’s challenge to a case brought by youth plaintiffs alleging the federal…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Firth Circuit recently reversed and remanded the decision out of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District…
In the earliest years of the United States as a nation George Washington called a meeting at Mount Vernon to try to settle a serious…
Late last year, the California Supreme Court issued a broad-reaching defeat to Newhall Ranch, a proposed master-planned community in northern Los Angeles County that was…
In the post-Great Recession era, cities and counties are highly aware of the potential fiscal impacts of new development in their jurisdictions. “Fiscal neutrality” is…
The Second District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court’s denial of a writ of mandate seeking to overturn the City of Los Angeles’s decision…
