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By Christina J. Bruff On September 29, 2020, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals addressed the question whether the U.S. District Court in New Mexico…
By James Purvis The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) issued a final rule removing the grizzly bear population in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem from…
By Brian Hamilton and Merdith Nikkel On September 11, 2020, Congressman John Garamendi introduced a bill to amend the 2014 Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation…
By Robbie Hull, Scott Birkey, and Clark Morrison One of the stated legislative policies underlying the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is to: . .…
By Melissa Jo Townsend, Rebecca Andrews The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana recently reversed and remanded a U.S. Army Corps of…
By James Purvis Owners of property in a residential subdivision brought an inverse condemnation claim against Placer County (County) and filed petitions for writ of…
By Derek R. Hoffman In a years-long dispute over water allocations among irrigation district water users in the Imperial Valley, the California Fourth District Court…
By Deborah Quick Obtaining final agency action subject to judicial review can sometimes feel like the culmination of a mythic odyssey to applicants for administrative…
By Geremy Holm, Miles Krieger, Steve Anderson In July 2020, the Council on Environmental Quality adopted sweeping revisions to its longstanding 1978 regulations detailing implementation…
By Debbie Leonard On September 17, 2020, the Nevada Supreme Court issued an eagerly awaited ruling regarding the public trust doctrine in the long-running Walker…
