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The Court of Appeal for the First District held that a state law known as the Ellis Act of 1985 preempts an ordinance adopted by…
Judge Jesus G. Bernal of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California rejected allegations that the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and other…
Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 2551 (AB 2551) on September 28, 2016. The bill aims to streamline the construction of local agency water storage projects.…
In September, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) jointly released a national Offshore Wind Strategy (Strategy) in order…
In a unanimous decision, the California Supreme Court rejected the notion that public agencies should get no deference in deciding whether to treat proposed projects…
As government agencies collect private information in increasingly large and sophisticated data caches, that data remains susceptible to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act…
The Sacramento County Superior Court has entered final judgment in Environmental Law Foundation et al. v. State Water Resources Control Board and County of Siskiyou,…
The U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued an audit report assessing whether the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Bureau) had…
The Texas Supreme Court has taken steps to extend the “accommodation doctrine,” which was initially developed to resolve disputes between surface and minerals owners, to…
The California Supreme Court ruled in People v. Rinehart, ___Cal.4th___, Case No. S222620 (Cal. Aug. 22, 2016), that California state laws restricting the practice of suction…
