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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…
In this case the Utah Supreme Court was asked to determine the narrow issue of whether the Little Cottonwood Tanner Ditch Company, Richards Ditch Company…
On October 12, 2016, California Governor Jerry Brown’s Interagency Working Group on Zero-Emission Vehicles (ZEV) released the 2016 ZEV Action Plan (Action Plan). The Action…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a listing determination under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) based on both near-and long-term climate change…
New Mexico has confronted numerous interstate water issues. In virtually all of the cases, New Mexico was the upstream state. On the Pecos River, New…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has confirmed that the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) prohibits the unpermitted “taking” of listed fish and wildlife species,…
