Primary practice area
Second District affirms a comprehensive adjudication of the Las Posas Valley Groundwater Basin, upholding the trial court’s physical solution allocating water to overlying landowners and appointing Fox Canyon as watermaster.
Third District holds plaintiffs who lost their CEQA challenge cannot recover catalyst-theory attorney fees under Code of Civil Procedure section 1021.5 when the agency’s later action came years after final defeat in court.
Fourth District holds Proposition 65’s pre-suit notice regulation is directory rather than mandatory, and that substantial compliance — not strict compliance — governs the validity of the 60-day notice for private-enforcement actions.
First District holds a program-level Environmental Impact Report for a local government’s general plan update need not include site-specific environmental analysis of housing-element inventory sites where no actual housing project has been proposed.
Third District affirms denial of validation for Department of Water Resources bond resolutions tied to the long-running Delta Conveyance Project, holding the ‘Delta Program’ is so loosely defined that it cannot qualify as a permitted modification of the Feather River Project unit of the State Water Project.
Third District affirms denial of Vallejo’s CEQA writ challenge to American Canyon’s certification of an EIR for a 2.6-million-square-foot warehouse complex, holding the EIR’s water-supply analysis adequately addressed reasonably foreseeable demand under CEQA and the Water Code.
First District holds California courts may exercise specific personal jurisdiction over Citgo Petroleum in coordinated climate-damages litigation brought by California cities and counties, based on Citgo’s longstanding gasoline supply contracts with California retailers.